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RK, son visited Bejjangi during first week of Oct
Top Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK, who is guarded by a 70-member guerrilla military unit, visited Bejjangi along with his son Munna during the first week of October this year, where 24 Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police on Monday morning.
Visakhapatnam: Top Maoist leader Ramakrishna alias RK, who is guarded by a 70-member guerrilla military unit, visited Bejjangi along with his son Munna during the first week of October this year, where 24 Maoists were killed in an encounter with the police on Monday morning.
Sources said he recently deployed 100 activists from Chhattisgarh to AOB to strengthen the force in the area. Perhaps a meeting was held on Sunday in a bid to fan out the activists in the AOB zone when the police struck them.
Said to be the mastermind in eliminating the network of informers in the AOB area, Ramakrishna always moved with a three rings of security and 10-15 heavily armed personal escorts .
“Just because of the high security, Ramakrishna might have escaped unhurt in the encounter,’’ intelligence officers said. After the arrest of his wife Sirisha in 2010, who worked as a school teacher in Hyderabad, Ramakrishna became more cautious. He is also suffering from Kidney ailment.
Ramakrishna, alias Akkiraju Haragopal, had joined the movement in the early 90s, while he worked as a lecturer at a college in Macherla in Guntur district . He has over 32 cases pending against him including that of assassination of Home Minister A Madhav Reddy whose car was blown away on the state highway bridge while on way to native town of Bhongir in Nalgonda district in the present Telangana state.
After he led the Maoists in the unsuccessful talks with the Andhra Pradesh government in 2004 and narrowly escaped from the dragnet of the state police in Nallamala forest, Ramakrishna was later moved from Andhra Pradesh to Odisha by the leadership.
