Hyderabad, Oct 28 (PTI) Two senior leaders of the banned CPI (Maoist)—one of them a Central Committee Member (CCM) who had been underground for more than four decades—surrendered before the police on Tuesday.

Telangana Director General of Police B Shivadhar Reddy told reporters here that P Prasad Rao (64), alias Chandranna—a Central Committee Member who had been underground for 45 years—and Bandi Prakash, alias Prabhath of the Telangana State Committee, who had been underground for 42 years, have left the CPI (Maoist) and joined the mainstream.

Prasad, a native of Peddapally district, joined the Radical Students Union in 1979 while pursuing his intermediate education.

Prakash, from Mancherial district, joined the Radical Youth League of the CPI (ML) People's War in 1983. He was most rec

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