Bhadradri Kothagudem District, May 31, 2025: CPI (Maoist) Central Committee spokesperson, Comrade Abhay, called for a Bharat Bandh on June 10 condemning the killing of the Maoist party’s General Secretary Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj in an encounter in Chhattisgarh on May 21.
Comrade Abhay said at the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, large numbers of commando and paramilitary forces and State Police raided forests in the Maad area of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanapur district and killed many cadres of the PLGA, (the armed wing of the CPI (Maoist)).
Memorial meetings in honor of the slain Maoists have to be conducted from June 11 to August 3 across the country to condemn the encounter and protest against ‘Operation Kagaar’, Comrade Abhay stated.
Comrade Abhay declared that Kesava Rao, in his 51 years of revolutionary life, made great contributions to the party and that his death was a great loss to the Maoist movement, adding that despite this loss the Maoist party would regroup and recover.
During the past 53 years, the CPI (Maoist) lost many Central and State committee leaders in encounters, but the Maoist party continued its fight for the oppressed classes and poorer sections of society, Comrade Abhay remarked.
Source : https://telanganatoday.com/maoists-call-for-bharat-bandh-on-june-10-to-protest-senior-leader-keshav-raos-encounter