'Slain naxal was planning major attack'
Saturday, December 30, 2006
'Slain naxal was planning major attack'
[ 29 Dec, 2006 REUTERS ]
HYDERABAD: Naxalite leader Vadkapur Chandramouli alias Devanna, killed in an encounter on Wednesday night, had as secretary of the Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBZC), led attacks on Darakonda outpost and other station attacks in the Visakhapatnam agency area and Kalimela and Motu police stations in neighbouring Orissa.
"We suspect Maoist leaders of Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBZC) under his leadership were holding a meeting or planning to hold a meeting to chalk out a major attack. But it was foiled,"police sources said.
To secure his release when he was arrested in 1987 along with four other naxalites, the erstwhile People's War (PW) kidnapped seven IAS officers in Gurthedu.
Devanna was the East Division secretary then. The East Division covers East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts.
A resident of Sultanabad in Karimnagar, Devanna joined the erstwhile People's War in 1980.
He became district committee member of Karimnagar district in 1984. He was shifted to the East Division in 1986 and was elevated to the post of secretary of the division after a year.
In December 2000, he was asked to head the newly-created Andhra-Orissa Border Special Zonal Committee. The Maoist leader was inducted into the Central Committee and made a member of the strategic Central Military Commission.
As he was overburdened with responsibilities, the PW in 2002 lessened his burden by moving him out of AOBZC.
After the merger of various revolutionary groups to form CPI (Maoist) in 2004, Devanna was made incharge of AOBZC as Central Regional Bureau head.
Every central committee member looks after the party affairs of regional bureaux in different parts of the country or states.
The naxalite top gun had a huge following and the credit of building the party movement in East Godavari and Visakhapatnam agency areas also goes to him.
He is reportedly said to have trained several tribals as party leaders in the Visakhapatnam agency area to carry out military operations for the naxalite group.
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posted by Bimal 12/30/2006 01:36:00 PM,
