In a significant setback to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range, P Sundarraj, announced that security forces have dealt a major blow to the outfit.On June 17, Andhra Pradesh police recovered the bodies of Central Committee member Gajarla Ravi alias Uday, committee member Aruna, and another cadre, Anju, following an operation targeting the outlawed group.
“Effective action was taken against the banned and illegal CPI Maoist organisation… In this connection, on June 17, the bodies of Central Committee member Gajarla Ravi alias Uday and committee member Aruna and another cadre Anju were recovered by the Andhra Pradesh team. This caused a big loss to the Maoist organisation… This will reduce the activities of Maoists in the area…,” IG Sundarraj said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a senior Naxal couple, active in Left Wing Extremism for the past 25 years, surrendered before the police and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Chhattisgarh’s Mohla Manpur district, which served as a huge setback to CPI Maoists.
The couple, Jeevan Tulavi (45) alias Ram Tulavi and his wife Agasha (35) alias Aarti Korram, surrendered before Inspector General (IG) Rajnandgaon Range Abhishek Shandilya, Superintendent of Police YP Singh, and Commandant of 27 Battalion ITBP Vivek Kumar Pandey, along with officers from 44 Battalion ITBP.According to an official release from the ITBP, Jeevan Tulavi, a resident of Parvidih village under Mohla police station, was a Divisional Committee Member (DVCM) and the Education Unit Commander of the Maad Division. He had been declared a reward of Rs 8 lakh.
Tulavi joined the CPI (Maoist) in 2008 and initially worked with the military wing of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in South Rajnandgaon. Post-2012- 13, he was assigned to the Mobile Political School (MOPOS) of the Maad Division as a teacher propagating Maoist ideology. He has since led the division’s education unit, travelling extensively across villages in Abujhmad and conducting ideological training through the Mobile Academic School (MAS).His wife, Agasha, is a resident of Telitola village under Mohla police station. She served as an Area Committee Member (ACM), worked with the press team of the Maad Division, and was the head of the Chetna Natya Mandali (CNM) — the cultural wing of the Maoists. Since the early 2000s, she has been involved as a singer, dancer, poet, orator, and composer, apart from handling computer operations and preparing press releases for the extremist group.