Maoist who gave security forces in multiple states nightmares for decades – who is Chalapati, shot dead in Monday’s encounter?

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chalapati maoist changeable  dormant   encounterThe CPI (Maoist)’s Central Military Commission leaned connected Chalapati to program high-profile battle operations and induct caller recruits. (Express)

Pratap Reddy Ramachandra Reddy alias Chalapati (62), who was killed successful an encounter with information forces adjacent the Chattisgarh-Odisha border, had a swift emergence done the Maoist ranks and orchestrated respective high-profile attacks, including 1 that killed an MLA, officials successful the information constitution who person followed his travel told The Indian Express.

Reddy hailed from Matempaipally colony successful Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. Security agencies successful the authorities judge helium is the mastermind of an onslaught connected September 23, 2018, successful Dumbriguda Mandal of Araku successful which Kidari Sarveswara Rao, the TDP MLA from Araku Valley, and erstwhile TDP MLA Siveri Soma were changeable dead. Chalapati’s woman Aruna allegedly led the radical of Maoists who changeable the 2 TDP leaders successful a brazen onslaught that shook Andhra’s information forces.

As a teen successful the precocious 1970s, helium was drawn to the ideology of the People’s War Group (PWG) of CPI (Marxist Leninist). In 1980, helium dropped retired of Intermediate and went to Srikakulam, wherever helium joined the PWG.

A dossier prepared by the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB), which gathered quality connected Maoists, states that helium worked successful the Uddanam country of Srikakulam and was rapidly elevated from enactment subordinate to Divisional Committee Member (DCM). He has been known by assorted aliases, including Pratap, Ravi, and Jairam.

In December 2000, helium was elevated arsenic a peculiar zonal committee subordinate and inducted into the State Military Commission of Andhra Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee (AOB-SZC). Sources accidental helium roseate done the ranks due to the fact that of his usage of guerrilla warfare tactics and cognition of subject strategy.

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The CPI (Maoist)’s Central Military Commission besides leaned connected him to program high-profile battle operations and induct caller recruits. Over 3 decades, helium is alleged to person planned and led attacks successful the borderline areas of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Chattisgarh.

In May 2016, aft spending decades underground, the Andhra Pradesh constabulary got their archetypal pb connected however Chalapathi looks erstwhile they recovered a selfie of him with his woman connected a laptop belonging to a Maoist person who was changeable dormant successful an brushwood successful Visakhapatnam.

In fact, their romance had got him into occupation wrong the Maoist ranks. In 2010, helium was suspended for a twelvemonth for having a narration with Aruna alias Chaitanya Venkat Ravi, a lawman commandant successful AOB-SZC. He yet joined her.

In 2012, helium was demoted due to the fact that a method mistake by him led to the decease of a cadre.

He was presently Secretary for the Odisha State Committee and carried a reward of Rs 1 crore connected his head. Sources said helium was suffering from chronic genu symptom and obesity and had sought attraction secretly astatine assorted places connected the Andhra-Odisha border.

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