Communist Party of

India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned Marxist–Leninist–Maoist[9][10] communist

political party and militant organization[11] in India which aims to overthrow the "semi- colonial and
semi- feudal Indian state" through protracted people's war. It was founded on 21 September 2004,
through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War (People's
War Group) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI). The party has been designated as a
terrorist organisation in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act since 2009.[12][13][14]

In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred to the Maoists as "the single biggest internal
security challenge" for India,[6][15] and said that the "deprived and alienated sections of the
population" form the backbone of the Maoist movement in India.[16] The government officials have
declared that, in 2013, 76 districts in the country were affected by "left wing extremism", with
another 106 districts in ideological influence.[17] In 2020, the activities of the party began to
increase again in Telangana and other areas.[18] Chhattisgarh is often affected by the party's
militant activities.
History Communist
Party of India
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) was (Maoist)
founded on 21 September 2004, through the
merger of the Communist Party of India
Abbreviation CPI
(Marxist–Leninist) People's War (People's War
Group), and the Maoist Communist Centre of (Maoist
India (MCCI). The merger was announced on 14
October the same year. In the merger a General Nambala
provisional central committee was constituted,
with the erstwhile People's War Group leader Secretary Keshava
Muppala Lakshmana Rao, alias "Ganapathi", as
Rao
general secretary.[19] Further, on May Day 2014,
the Communist Party of India (Marxist–
Leninist) Naxalbari merged into the CPI
Founded 21
(Maoist).[20] September
2004
Ideology Banned 22 June
2009
The CPI (Maoist) observes that the Indian
state is being "run by a collaboration of Merger of •
imperialists, the comprador bourgeoisie and
feudal lords."[21] According to the South Asia
Communis
Terrorism Portal, the two factions of the Party Party of
adhered to differing strands of communism
prior to their 2004 merger, although "both India
organizations shared their belief in the
'annihilation of class enemies' and in extreme
(Marxist–
violence as a means to secure organizational Leninist)
goals." The People's War Group (PWG)
maintained a Marxist–Leninist stance, while
the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI)
People's
took a Maoist stance. After the merger, the War
PWG secretary of Andhra Pradesh announced
that the newly formed CPI- Maoist would
• Maoist
follow Marxism–Leninism–Maoism as its
Communis
"ideological basis guiding its thinking in all
spheres of its activities." Included in this Centre of
ideology is a commitment to "protracted armed
struggle" to undermine and to seize power
India
from the state.[19] On May Day 2014, Ganapathy •
and Ajith (Secretary of the CPI (ML) Naxalbari)
also issued a joint statement stating that "the
Communis
unified party would [continue to] take Marxism-
Party of
Leninism- Maoism as its guiding ideology."[20]
India
The ideology of the party is contained in a
"Party Programme." In the document, the (Marxist–
Maoists denounce globalisation as a war on
the people by market fundamentalists and the
Leninist)
caste system as a form of social Naxalbari
oppression.[22] The CPI (Maoist) claim that
they are conducting a "people's war", a Student • All India
strategic approach developed by Mao Zedong
during the guerrilla warfare phase of the wing Revolutionar
Chinese Communist Party. Their eventual
Students
objective is to install a "people's government"
via a New Democratic Revolution.[22] Federation
• Radical
Students
Union
 Youth Radical
Location and wing Youth

prominence League
Women's Krantikari
CPI(Maoist) currently operates in the forest wing Adivasi
belt around central India in the states of
Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra,
Mahila
Odisha. It is present even in remote regions of Sangathan
Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, as well as in
Bihar and the tribal- dominated areas in the
Paramilitary • People
borderlands of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra,
West Bengal, and Odisha. The CPI (Maoist) wings Liberatio
aims to consolidate its power in this area and
establish a Compact Revolutionary Zone from
Guerrilla
which to advance the people's war in other Army:
parts of India.[19] A 2005 Frontline cover story
called the Bhamragad Taluka, where the Madia
9,000–
Gond Adivasis live, the heart of the Maoist-
10,000
affected region in Maharashtra.[23] Recently,
the Indian government has claimed that in (Septem
2013, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat,
2013)
Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya • People
Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura,
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
Militia
experienced [ideological] "influence" of "Left
(armed
Wing Extremism"; while claiming that armed
activity by the "Left Wing" extremists was with bow
noticed in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra,
arrows a
Odisha and West Bengal.[17]
 machete
Organisation 38,000
Trade Singareni
The current General Secretary of CPI (Maoist)
is Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraj.[24] He
union Karmika
was appointed after Muppala Lakshmana Rao, wing Samakya
who uses the alias "Ganapathy".[25] The party
hierarchy consists of the Regional Bureaus,
Cultural Chetna
which look after two or three states each, the
State Committees, the Zonal Committees, the organisation Natya
District Committees, and the "dalams" (armed
squads).[26] Communist writer Jan Myrdal
Manch
noted that the CPI (Maoist) also organises
events like "The Leadership Training Ideology Communism
Programme" to endure the forces of the
Marxism–
state.[27]
Leninism–
Maoism

Politburo Political position Far-

left
As per the communist party policies the
highest decision making body of the CPI Colours Red
(Maoist) is the Politburo, with thirteen or
fourteen members, six of whom were killed or Motives Overthrow
[28]
arrested between 2007 and 2010. Prashant
Bose alias "Kishan- da" and Katakam Sudarshan
the
alias Anand,[29] are the two most prominent governme
Politburo members of CPI (Maoist). B.
Sudhakar alias "Kiran" is another Politburo of Republi
member of CPI (Maoist).[30] Shamsher Singh
India by
Sheri alias Karam Singh, who died of Cerebral
Malaria- Jaundice on 30 October 2005, was
also the party's Politburo member.[31] Between
means of
2005 and 2011, the State captured several armed
Politburo members of the party, which includes
– Sushil Roy alias Som, Narayan Sanyal alias
rebellion[1]
N. Prasad, Pramod Mishra, Amitabh Bagchi,
Baccha Prasad Singh, Anukul Chandra
Establishm
Naskar[32] and Akhilesh Yadav.[33] Ashutosh of a Maois
Tudu[28] and Anuj Thakur[34] are another two of
the arrested Politburo members of the party. regime in
Arvind Ji alias Deo Kumar Singh, a politburo
member died in heart attack on 21, March
India[2]
2018.[35] Among those killed, Cherukuri
Rajkumar alias "Azad"[36][37][38] and Mallojula
"To destro
Koteswara Rao alias "Kishenji",[38][39] were two the state
past members of the CPI (Maoist)'s Politburo.
Politburo member Akkiraju Haragopal alias
machinery
Ramkrishna died in October 2021 due to and estab
illness.[40]
the Indian
People's
Democrat
Central Federative
Committee Republic"[

The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist)

Active India
takes command from the Politburo and passes region(s) (mainly in
on the information to its members, and has 32
members. During an interview in 2010, Anand Red
told media personnels that out of the 45
Corridor)
members of the Central Committee of CPI
(Maoist), 8 has been arrested and 22 has been
killed by the agencies of the Indian
government.[41] Anuradha Ghandy, who died on
12 April 2008, was an eminent member of CPI Status Designated
(Maoist)'s Central Committee.[42] Kadari
terrorist
Satyanarayan Reddy alias "Kosa", Thippiri
Tirupathi alias "Devuji", Malla Raji Reddy [43] and organisatio
India[4]
Mallujola Venugopal alias "Bhupati" are another
three cadres and Central Committee members
of the party.[44] Madvi Hidma is the youngest Design
Central Committee member of the party. As of
22 September 2011, nine of the Central as unla
Committee members were jailed, which
associa
includes – Moti Lal Soren, Vishnu, Varanasi
Subramanyam, Shobha, Misir Besra, Jhantu by the
Mukherjee, Vijay Kumar Arya.[33][45] One more
Central Committee member, Ravi Sharma, was
Madhy
also captured later.[46] Ginugu Narsimha Reddy Prades
alias Jampanna surrendered to police in
December 2017.[47] Varkapur Chandramouli,[38] Andhra
Patel Sudhakar Reddy,[38] Narmada Akka,[30]
Prades
and Milind Teltumbde who were killed by
armed forces. Another Central Committee Chhatt
member Haribhushan died due to Covid.
Another CC member B.G. Krishnamoorthy alias
govern
BGK, Vijay was arrested in 2021 November
along with another PLGA Savithri by Kerala Annual Rs. 140 – 25
ATS.[48]
revenue crores[5]
and • Abductions
means extortions of
of landowners a
revenue companies[6
Party flag
Publication
division
The CPI (Maoist) has a "publication division". Politics of India ·
Besides volunteering as a Politburo member
of the party, B. Sudhakar alias "Kiran" also
Political parties ·
works for its publication division.[30] Elections

Military Commissions
The Central Military Commission (CMC) is the main armed body of the CPI (Maoist), and it is
constructed by its Central Committee. In addition to the CMC, the party has also raised state
military commissions.[49]: 105, 106 The CMC is headed by Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraj.[50]
Anand[51] and Arvind Ji[52] are another two members of the organisation's CMC. Anuj Thakur is an
arrested member of the CMC of the party.[34] Kishenji[53] and Chandramouli[38] were also the
members of the CPI (Maoist)'s CMC.

Technical Committee
Central Technical Committee (CTC) is given the responsibility of fabricating weapons and
explosives. The Technical Committee consists of few selected members having special
knowledge on science and research and works under the direct supervision of the Central Military
Commission (CMC) of the Party. Sadanala Ramakrishna, a senior Maoist leader was the Secretary
of the Committee who was arrested in February 2012 in Kolkata.[54][55]
Estimated strength
The military wings of the founding organisations, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (the
military wing of the MCCI) and the People's Guerrilla Army (the military wing of the PWG), also
underwent a merger. The name of the unified military organisation is the People's Liberation
Guerrilla Army (PLGA), and it is grouped into three sections — the Basic, the Secondary and the
Main squad.[19] All the PLGA members are volunteers and they do not receive any wages.[56]
During his stay in the guerrilla zones, Jan Myrdal noted that the female cadres of CPI (Maoist)
constituted about 40% of its PLGA, and held numerous "command positions";[57] but currently, the
female members comprises 60% of the Maoist cadres,[58] and women commanders heads 20 of
the 27 divisions of the guerrilla zones.[59]

P.V. Ramana, of the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi, estimates the Naxilities' current
strength at 9,000–10,000 armed fighters, with access to about 6,500 firearms.[60] The analyses, as
of September 2013, suggested that the estimated number of PLGA members has decreased
from 10,000 − 12,000[58] to 8,000 − 9,000.[61] But, Gautam Navlakha has suggested that the PLGA
has strengthened over the past few years, and has mustered 12 companies and over 25 platoons
and a supply platoon in 2013 as compared to 8 companies and 13 platoons of 2008.[59] The
People's Militia which is armed with bows, arrows, and machetes is and is believed to logistically
assist the PLGA is estimated to be around 38,000.[62]

Medical units
The Maoists had structured "medical units" in the villages of Bastar,[63] and the CPI (Maoist)
operates "mobile medical units."[49]: 101 Rahul Pandita writes:

"In the field of health as well, the Maoists often fill in large gaps left by the state.
Their mobile medical units cover large distances to offer primary health care to
tribals.... Various training camps are held regularly on preventive measures against
diseases such as diarrhoea or malaria. The grass-root doctors in the medical squads
 can administer vaccines, identify a number of diseases through symptoms, and
treat injuries that are not severe. Some can even conduct simple blood tests to
arrive at a diagnosis. This is a significant advantage in such areas."[49]: 101–102

Furthermore, the CPI (Maoist)'s medical services squads also move from village to village and
provides "basic medical training" to selected young tribal people which enables them to identify
frequently occurring diseases through their presages so that they can also distribute vaccines to
the patients.[49]: 102

Frontal organisations
The frontal organisations of the party include the Radical Youth League, Rythu Coolie Sangham,
Radical Students Union, Singareni Karmika Samakya, Viplava Karmika Samakhya, Porattam Kerala,
Ayyankali pada Kerala, Njattuvela Kerala and All India Revolutionary Students Federation,[64]
Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan,[56] and Chetna Natya Manch.[65]

Strategy

Governance tactics
The "organising principles" of the Maoists are sketched out from the Chinese Communist
Revolution and the Vietnam War. The CPI (Maoist) has organised Dandakaranya into ten divisions,
each comprising three area committees; and every Area Committee is composed of several
Janatana Sarkars (people's governments). The party says that a Janatana Sarkar is established by
the election procedure involving a group of villages, and has nine departments — agriculture, trade
and industry, economic, justice, defence, health, public relations, education and culture, and
jungle.[66] The Janatana Sarkar provides education up to primary level in the subjects of
mathematics, social science, politics, and Hindi, in the "camp schools" using the textbooks
published by the party in Gondi. They also use DVDs to educate the children in the streams of
science and history.[67]

In their efforts to intimidate their political adversaries and consolidate control, the Maoists tax
local villagers, extort businesses, abduct and kill "class enemies" such as government officials
and police officers, and regulate the flow of aid and goods.[6] To help fill their ranks, the Maoists
force each family under their domain to supply one family member, and threaten those who resist
with violence.[68]

The organisation has been holding "Public Courts", which have been described as kangaroo
courts,[69][70] against their opponents. These "courts" function in the areas under de facto Maoist
control.[71] The Maoists have also taken care to demolish government institutions under their de
facto jurisdiction.[72] They have also demolished railroad tracks and school buildings that are often
used as temporary camps by security forces.[73]

Military strategies and tactics

The CPI (Maoist) rejects "engagement" with what it terms as the "prevailing bourgeois democracy"
and focuses on capturing political power through protracted armed struggle based on guerrilla
warfare.[74] This strategy entails building up bases in rural and remote areas and transforming
them first into guerrilla zones, and then into "liberated zones", in addition to encircling cities.[19]

The military hardware used by Maoists, as indicated through a number of seizures, include RDX
cable wires, gelignite sticks, detonators, country- made weapons, INSAS rifles, AK- 47s, SLRs, and
improvised explosive devices.[75] The Maoists condemn the accusations that they manage arms
through China, Myanmar and Bangladesh.[76] On the subject, Ganapathy says, "Our weapons are
mainly country- made. All the modern weapons we have are mainly seized from the government
armed forces when we attack them."[76]

The CPI (Maoist)'s General Secretary says that they keep on appealing to the "lower- level
personnel" in the paramilitary and police forces not to attack them, but rather "join hands with the
masses" and "consciously" point their guns towards whom the Maoists view as "real enemies."
They further claims that "only when the government forces come to attack us [Maoists] carrying
guns do we attack them in self- defence."[49]: 48–49 In Jharkhand, the police have also seized
posters from various places which read, "Policemen keep away from the green hunt and try to be
friends of poor. Police jawan, do not obey orders of the senior officials, instead join the people's
army."[77]

Funding
Some sources claim that the funding for the Maoists comes from abductions, extortion and by
setting up unofficial administrations to collect taxes in rural areas where official government
appears absent.[6][7][8] Poppy cultivation is another suspected source of funding for Maoists in the
Ghagra area of Gumla district in Jharkhand and in parts of Gumla, Kishanganj and Purnia districts in
Bihar where security forces claim that opium fields are hidden among maize crops.[8] Reports
from Debagarh district in Odisha indicate that the Maoists also support hemp cultivation to help
fund their activities.[8]

Legal status
The party is regarded as a "left- wing extremist entity" and a terrorist outfit by the Indian
government. Several of their members have been arrested under the now- defunct Prevention of
Terrorist Activities Act.[19][78] The group is officially banned by the state governments of
Odisha,[79] Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh, among others. The party has protested these
bans.[80] The Indian government, led by the United Progressive Alliance, banned the CPI (Maoist)
under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) as a terrorist organisation[81] on 22 June
2009. On 22 June 2009, the central home ministry, keeping in mind the growing unlawful activities
by the group, banned it under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).[82] Earlier, the union
home minister, P. Chidambaram had asked the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee, to ban the Maoists following the Lalgarh Violence.[83] Maoist Communist Centre
(MCC) and all its formations and front organisations have been banned by the Government of
India.[84]
Controversies

Opposition
The Party is regarded as a serious security threat by the Indian government.[85] It says it will
combine improved policing with socio- economic measures to defuse grievances that fuel the
Maoist cause.[68] In 2005, Chhattisgarh State sponsored an anti- Maoist movement called the
Salwa Judum. The group, which the BBC alleges is "government backed",[86] an allegation rejected
by the Indian government[87][88] has come under criticism for "perpetrating atrocities and abuse
against women",[89] using child soldiers,[71] burning people alive,[90] and the looting of property and
destruction of homes.[91] These allegations were rejected by a fact- finding commission of the
National Human Rights Commission of India, appointed by the Supreme Court of India, who
determined that the Salwa Judum was a spontaneous reaction by tribes against Maoist atrocities
perpetrated against them.[92][93] The camps are guarded by police officers, paramilitary forces and
child soldiers [68][71] empowered with the official title "special police officer" (SPO).[71][94] However,
on 5 July 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the Salwa Judum as illegal and
unconstitutional. The court directed the Chhattisgarh government to recover all the firearms given
to the militia along with the ammunition and accessories. It also ordered the government to
investigate all instances of alleged criminal activities of Salwa Judum.[95] But, the state
government did not abide by the Supreme Court's decision. In August 2013, the Supreme Court of
India asked the state government to explain that "why its failure to execute the July 2011 order of
disbanding the SPOs not considered as contempt of court.".[96] In March 2019, a municipal school
teacher, Yogendra Meshram was killed by the Maoists in Korchi, which was vehemently protested
by locals. The Maoist leadership later apologized for the killing stating it to be a mistake and that
Meshram was innocent wrongly suspected to be a police informer.[97]
International connections
The CPI (Maoist) maintains dialogue with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) who
control most of Nepal in the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of
South Asia (CCOMPOSA), according to several intelligence sources and think tanks.[19] These
links are, however, denied by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist- Centre)[98]

While under detention in June 2009, a suspected Lashkar- e- Taiba (LeT) operative indicated that
the LeT and the CPI (Maoist) had attempted to co- ordinate activities in Jharkhand state.[99] But,
Ganapathy has denied any links between CPI (Maoist) and LeT, stating that the allegations are
"only mischievous, calculated propaganda by the police officials, bureaucrats and leaders of the
reactionary political parties" to malign the Maoists' image with the aim of labeling them as
terrorists in order to justify "their brutal terror campaign against Maoists and the people in the
areas of armed agrarian struggle."[25] Kishenji also criticised LeT for having "wrong" and "anti-
people" policies; though he said that the Maoists may consider backing up a few of their
demands, if LeT will halt its "terrorist acts".[100]

Reports in 2010 indicate that the Communist Party of the Philippines, Southeast Asia's longest-
lived communist insurgent group, has been reported to have engaged in training activities for
guerrilla warfare with Indian Maoists.[101]

The Indian Maoists deny operational links with foreign groups, such as the Nepalese Maoists, but
do claim comradeship.[102] Some members of the Indian government accept this,[103] while others
argue that operational links do exist, with training coming from Sri- Lankan Maoists and small arms
from China.[104] China denies any suggestion that it supports foreign Maoist rebels, citing
improvements in relations between India and China, including movement towards resolving their
border disputes. Maoists in Nepal, India, and the Philippines are less reticent about their shared
goals.[105]
Indian Government's
paramilitary offensive
against the CPI (Maoist)
In September 2009, an all- out offensive was launched by the Government of India's paramilitary
forces and the state's police forces against the CPI (Maoist) is termed by the Indian media as the
"Operation Green Hunt".[106]

On 3 January 2013, government issued a statement that it is deploying 10,000 more central
paramilitary personnel in Bastar, Odisha and some parts of Jharkhand.[107] On 8 June 2014, the
Minister of Home Affairs officially approved the deployment of another 10,000 troops from the
paramilitary forces to fight against the Maoists in Chhattisgarh.[108] The count of personnel from
State Armed Police Forces involved in counter- Maoism operations in the Red corridor is
estimated to number around 200,000.[61] Along with firearms, the armed forces' personnel use
satellite phones, unmanned aerial vehicles and Air Force helicopters.[61]

In 2011, the Indian Army while denying its direct role in the offensive operations accepted that it
has been training the paramilitary personnel to fight against the Maoists, however, the Maoists
have objected to the Army's stationing in the Red corridor.[109] On 30 May 2013, the Indian Air
Force's Air Chief Marshal declared that apart from the currently operating MI- 17 helicopters, the
Indian Force has decided to induce a unit of MI- 17V5 helicopters to "provide full support to anti-
Naxal operations."[110] In August 2014, the Ministry of Home Affairs had stated that 2,000
personnel from the Nagaland's Indian Reserve Battalions (IRB) were deployed in counter-
insurgency and counter- terrorism operations against the Maoists in Bastar.[111]

Since the start of the operation: 2,266 Maoist militants have been killed, 10,181 have been
arrested and 9,714 have surrendered.[112]
Notable attacks

On 12 June 2009, at least 29 members

of the Indian Police were killed[113][114] in
an ambush attack by Maoist rebels in
Rajnandgaon, 90 km (56 mi) from Raipur
(India's Chhattisgarh state).[115]

On 15 February 2010, several of the

guerrilla commanders of CPI (Maoist),
all of whom are believed to be female,
killed 24 personnel of the Eastern
Frontier Rifles at Silda in West
Bengal.[49]: 97–98 The attack was directed
by Kishenji,[116] and after the Maoist raid
at the paramilitary camp, Kishenji
addressed the news media saying, "We
have not started it (violence) and we will
not stop it first. Let us see whether the
central government is honest about a
solution and we will definitely co–
operate.... This is the answer to
Chidambaram's 'Operation Green Hunt'
and unless the Centre stop this inhuman
military operation, we are going to
answer the Centre this way only."[117]

On 6 April 2010, the Maoists ambushed

and killed 76 paramilitary personnel who
fell into a trap laid by the lurking
Maoists. The CPI (Maoist) described the
incident as a "direct consequence" of the
Operation Green Hunt stating that "We
have been surrounded by paramilitary
battalions. They are setting fire to the
forests and making adivasis (tribals)
flee. In this situation, we have no other
alternative (but to stage attacks)."[118]

On 25 May 2013, the CPI (Maoist)

ambushed a convoy of the Indian
National Congress at Bastar, and killed
27 people including Mahendra Karma,
Nand Kumar Patel and Vidya Charan
Shukla.[119] While regretting the death of
a few "innocent Congress [INC]
functionaries" during the incident, they
hold the Bharatiya Janata Party and
Indian National Congress' policies which
they view as "anti-people" in nature, as
directly responsible for the attack.[120]
Later, 14 Maoist who had allegedly
participated in the ambush[121] were
gunned down in Odisha by the Special
Operation Group with the assistance of
Border Security Force.[122]

On 3 April 2021, twenty-two soldiers

were killed in a Maoist ambush on the
border of Bijapur and Sukma districts in
southern Chhattisgarh. Those killed
included 14 Chhattisgarh policemen and
seven jawans of the CRPF, including six
members of its elite CoBRA unit,
specially trained to take on Maoist
guerillas.[123]

On 4 January 2022, CPI (Maoist)

attacked former BJP MLA of
Manoharpur Gurucharan Nayak in West
Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Nayak
escaped but the Maoists slit the throat
of his two bodyguards, snatched their
AK-47 rifles and fled. The two
bodyguards died in the incident.[124]

On 16 January, 2024, guerrillas in Bijapur

district attacked the Central Reserve
Police Force camp in a three-hour raid.
As many as 35 police officers were
killed and more than 40 people were
 seriously injured. This is another
unprecedented large-scale attack since
2010.[125]

See also

List of organisations banned by the

Government of India

Anti-revisionism

Operation Steeplechase

Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

List of communist parties

List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in

India

Red Ant Dream

 Deo Kumar Singh

Ganapathy (Maoist)

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