Visuals of top Maoist leader create flutter in Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad: Television channels Saturday aired footage of India's top Maoist leader Ganapati, creating a flutter in his native Andhra Pradesh.
All the Telugu news channels showed visuals of Communist Party of India (Maoist) general secretary Ganapati, alias Mupalla Laxman Rao alias Chandrasekhar, who hails from Karimnagar district.

The airing of the footage, contained in a CD seized by police recently during a shootout in West Bengal, created a flutter as these were the first pictures of Ganapati after he went underground nearly three decades ago.

Sitting along with his second-in-command Prashanta Bose alias Kishenda alias Nirbhay Mukherjee, the most wanted Maoist was addressing party cadres. The channels said they have taken the visuals from youtube. English daily Hindustan Times had said earlier that it was in possession of the CD.

While the police claimed that the Maoist leaders were speaking at CPI-Maoist's ninth congress in 2007 somewhere in Bihar, Maoist sympathiser and revolutionary poet Varavara Rao said here the visuals were of the unity congress held in September 2003 to finalise the merger of CPI(ML), People's War and Maoist Coordination Committee of India.

The two outfits merged in 2004 to form CPI-Maoist, the most powerful Maoist group in the country, with considerable influence in nine states.
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