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Maoists vow to avenge Azad's death | The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on Sunday vowed to take revenge over the death of its leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in Andhra Pradesh's Adilabad District. "Azad was murdered
brutally by Intelligence Bureau of the Central Government and Special Intelligence
Bureau ( SIB ) of Andhra Pradesh with complete knowledge of Union home minister
P Chidambaram," a statement issued by the CPI -Maoist said. The Maoists have also
called for a 48-hour 'All India shutdown' from July 7 to protest Azad's killing.
The Andhra Pradesh police reportedly shot dead Azad in an encounter in the Jogapur
forest area early on Friday morning, while he was attempting to cross into the
neighbouring Maharashtra . Azad was a member of the central committee of the outlawed
Communist Party of India-Maoist ( CPI -Maoist) and carried a reward of 1.2 million
rupees on his head. Azad, who did his MTech in Warangal , was linked to the Maoist
movement for more than 35 years and used to write articles for magazines on Maoist
ideology. There are reports that Azad was assigned the task of revising the Maoist
movement in India . Meanwhile, there are also reports that Azad's death could
could lead to reprisal attacks in Maoist strongholds in Chhattisgarh, Orissa,
Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal following which the security agencies have sounded
a high alert across these five States. Maoist attacks have increased this year,
especially after the Government launched a coordinated security offensive involving
tens of thousands of police trying to flush out the rebels from their jungle hideouts
in central and eastern India. |
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