Hyderabad: Around 140 Maoists, including senior Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Rupesh and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee’s (DKZC) Maad division in-charge Ranita, will formally surrender before Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai and home minister Vijay Sharma in Jagdalpur on Friday, October 17.

Rupesh, a prominent Maoist leader from Andhra Pradesh and active in Chhattisgarh, has coordinated between various divisions of the DKZC and managed logistics, communication, and training in the Maad area.

Over the years, he was regarded as a bridge between the Maoist party’s central committee and the local zonal structure. His surrender, officials say, will “severely weaken the outfit’s operational capability in Bastar.”

Maad division in-charge Ranita is one of the senior

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