Bijapur District, June 6, 2025: An individual police claim is a Central Committee Member of the CPI (Maoist) was allegedly killed in an encounter in the Indravati National Park Area of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, P Sunderraj, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range), announced to the press today.
According to the IGP, the deceased has been identified as Tentu Laxmi Narsimha Chalam, alias Goutham alias Sudhakar, a Central Committee Member of the Maoist party. He was in charge of the tech team and the Revolutionary Political School (RePOS) that carries out the political education of new cadres of the CPI (Maoist).
“Acting on specific intelligence inputs regarding the presence of senior Maoist leaders and cadres in the region, a joint team comprising personnel from the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF), and CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) launched a targeted operation on June 5 inside the remote forest of Indravati National Park. During the operation, security forces engaged in an encounter, resulting in the death of Sudhakar”, the IGP declared, adding that reliable intelligence inputs had indicated the presence of Sudhakar, along with Telangana State Committee member Bandi Prakash, Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee member Pappa Rao, and several other armed Maoist cadres in the area.
As per the IGP’s report, Tentu Lakshmi Narasimha Chalam alias Goutham alias Sudhakar was born in Pragadavaram village of Chintalapudi mandal in Andhra Pradesh’s Eluru district (formerly West Godavari), studied at CR Reddy College in Eluru and later enrolled in an Ayurvedic medicine course in Vijayawada, which he eventually left to join the CPI (ML) PWG in 1986.
The IGP alleged that over the years, Sudhakar climbed the ranks, serving as secretary of the Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee (AOBSZC) from 2001 to 2003, ultimately being promoted to the CPI (Maoist)’s central committee in 2021, and was in charge of the party’s core ideological training unit, known as RePOS (Revolutionary Political School), adding that Sudhakar’s wife, Kakarala Guru Smruthi alias Budri alias Samatha, is also a senior Maoist cadre and is currently believed to be working in the Mobile Political School (MoPOS).
In his prepared remarks, the IGP stated that Sudhakar became a public face of the Maoist party during the 2004 peace talks between the AP government and the CPI (Maoist). Alongside senior leaders like Comrade Ramakrishna and Comrade Ganesh, Sudhakar emerged from the forests to address a public gathering at Guttikonda Bilam in Palnadu district. The negotiations, held in Hyderabad from Oct 15 to 18, 2004, focused on ceasefire, land rights, and prisoners’ release. However, with talks collapsing soon after, Sudhakar slipped back into the underground.
The IGP concluded his remarks by claiming that for the last 17 years, Sudhakar operated largely from the Abujhmad region of Bastar, overseeing the party’s political education programs and managing high-level strategic communications within the party.
According to a press release issued by the Bastar police, it is believed that other Maoist cadres may have fled the encounter site. Further details, including the exact number of casualties and recoveries, will be shared once the operation is complete.
Sudhakar’s death is yet to be officially confirmed by the CPI (Maoist).
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