“Talking peace with the AP government was the Maoists’ greatest mistake that led to their downfall,” Amar said after his arrest.
HYDERABAD: With the arrest of Janashakti central committee secretary Amar alias K Devender in Pune on Sunday night, Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police have all but wiped out the extreme Left splinter group once second only to the dreaded Peoples War (PW).
“Talking peace with the AP government was the Maoists’ greatest mistake that led to their downfall,” Amar said after his arrest.
Janashakti, second only to PW in influence, firepower and resources at one time, is today confined to a few pockets and left with just four dalams consisting of around 18 armed members scattered in Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam and East Godavari districts, police say.
Karimnagar district superintendent of police Y Gangadhar said a special team from Hyderabad went to Pune and took Amar into custody.
Produced before the media on Sunday, Amar said: “I have not surrendered but was arrested.” But police sources claimed Amar was in touch with Andhra home minister Jana Reddy and revealed his whereabouts only after he was promised good treatment.
Amar, Sagar and Riaz were the Janashakti representatives who joined PW leaders led by Ramakrishna (A Hargopal) for peace talks with the AP government in October 2004.
“The talks ruined the Maoist movement in the state,” Amar said detailing how almost all top Maoist and Janashakti leaders were traced and killed or coerced to surrender. He said Janashakti was to merge with PW and hence, had disclosed most of its activities, resources and manpower to it.
“But PW chose to merge with the Maoist Communist Centre in the larger interest of national hegemony,” Amar, who has written thousands of Telugu poems by the pseudonym MITRA, said. Amar married Vimala, an artiste of the Arunodaya cultural troupe of the party, and has two sons. He is wanted in 13 cases in Karimangar and Hyderabad. He was involved in the murder of five persons and the blasting of Mastabad Police Station.
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