Banned CPI-Maoist party announces that the sexagenarian breathed his last in deep forests of Chhattisgarh
JAYASHANKAR BHUPALA PALLY
A top Maoist leader Katakam Sudarshan died of a heart attack in the deep forest of Chhattisgarh, according to a press statement by the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on Sunday. The Statement said that the sexagenarian Maoist leader, who was underground for almost 48 years, died in the afternoon on March 32. He went by the name ‘comrade Anand.’
He carried a Rs 25 lakh reward on his head in Telangana and Rs 45 lakh in Chhattisgarh.
The statement, released by party spokesperson Abhay further said that the banned Maoist leader had been suffered from diabetes and blood pressured related diseases for a long.
Sudarshan, who hailed from Bellampalli in the undivided Adilabad district, had been attracted to the Communist ideology and later to the revolutionary ideology. He completed a diploma course in mining in 1974. He joined the ranks of the Naxalites in 1978 and remained underground since then.
He played a crucial role in the Maoist movement in the Telangana region in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. In 1978, he led the farmers’ movement in Jannaram forest. He was the north Telangana special zonal committee secretary in 1995. He rose to the ranks of banned Maoist party central committee members. He worked as the party regional bureau secretary in 2017. He stepped down as party central committee member as he suffered from diabetes and other issues. He led Sironcha squad in Dandakarnya. The police said that Sudarshan escaped numerous exchanges of fire with the police in his long underground life.
