Malkangiri (Orissa): Suspected Maoists blew up a mobile tower control room of a private telecom company in Orissa's Malkangiri
District on Saturday night. Official sources on Sunday said the rebels blew up
the control room using landmine blast at Nilakamberu village in a bid to disrupt
the communication network in their stronghold. It has been reported that the Maoists
then fled into the forest area raising slogans against the Central Government
and the security forces. Over the last two weeks, the ultras have blown up a school
building, a panchayat office building and a godown in the district. The attack
follows the killing of Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad. Andhra Pradesh
police reportedly killed Azad in an encounter in the Jogapur forest area of Andhra
Pradesh's Adilabad District early on Friday morning last week, while he was attempting
to cross into neighbouring Maharashtra . Azad was a member of the central committee
of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist ( CPI -Maoist) and carried a reward
of 1.2 million rupees on his head. Azad, who did his MTech in Warangal , was linked
to the Maoist movement for more than 35 years and used to write articles for magazines
on Maoist ideology. There are reports that Azad was assigned the task of revising
the Maoist movement in India.
