Jhargram: A suspected Maoist leader surrendered before the top brass of Jhargram district police and the CRPF on Saturday.
The leader identified as Sova Mandi is a local commander from Jhargram. She also handed over a bag containing Rs 50,000 of currency notes. Mandi's surrender comes hours after top People Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) leader Umakant Mahto, the key accused in the Gynaneshwari train accident that killed 148 people, was killed in an encounter.
Meanwhile CPM Politburo member and federal lawmaker Sitaram Yechury has dismissed the need for negotiations with the radical Maoist cadres.
"The slogans of people's war come from an ideological assessment that the Indian ruling classes do not have a social base of their own, they are weak, they are puppets of imperialism, all that is required is to arm the people and once people are armed, we can have a revolution. People's war comes from that ideological dispensation. So no back channel or front channel will work as long as that ideology is not reassessed. So, the Maoists themselves will have to reassess that ideology and come to a conclusion,” said Yechury.
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