Maoists call for Bharat Bandh on June 10 to protest senior leader Keshav Rao’s encounter

Memorial meetings in honour of slain Maoists to be conducted from June 11 to August 3 across the country to condemn encounter and protest against ‘Operation Kagar’, says CPI (Maoist) Party Central Committee spokesperson Abhay

Kothagudem: CPI (Maoist) Party Central Committee spokesperson Abhay called for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on June 10 condemning the killing of the Central Committee general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju in an encounter in Chhattisgarh on May 21.

He said at the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, large number of commando and paramilitary forces, and Chhattisgarh Police raided forests in Maad of Narayanapur district and killed many cadres of the PLGA.

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Memorial meetings in honour of the slain Maoists have to be conducted from June 11 to August 3 across the country to condemn the encounter and protest against ‘Operation Kagar’.

Keshav Rao, in his 51 years of revolutionary life, made great contributions to the party and his death was a great loss to the Maoist movement. But the party would bounce back, he said.

During the past 53 years, the CPI (Maoist) party lost many Central and State committee leaders in encounters. But the party continued its fight for the suppressed classes and poorer sections, Abhay said.