HYDERABAD: The banned CPI (Maoist)'s central committee has ordered senior neta Mallojula Venugopal, 69, to immediately surrender his weapons, warning that People's Guerrilla Army would forcibly seize them if he failed to comply. Venugopal, also known as Sonu and Bhupati, recently expressed readiness to lay down arms. Party netas dismissed his remarks as false propaganda aimed at weakening the organisation, accu-sing him of using talk of ceasefire and peace as a pretext for surrender. Telangana's Special Intelligence Branch confirmed the committee's instructions but said there was no confirmation of Venugopal's expulsion. The dispute escalated after a press release dated Aug 15 and attributed to Maoist spokesperson Abhay, suggested the group intended to "temporarily renounce arm-ed stru

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