Nine women cadres among 43 Maoists surrender in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma

TIL Desk/National/Raipur/ A total of 43 Maoists, including nine women cadres, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh’s worst Maoist-hit Sukma district on Wednesday, an officer said. The 43 cadres belonging to ten villages of the Sukma district turned themselves in before senior police and Central Reserve Police Force officials in Sukma town citing disappointment with ‘inhuman’ and ‘hollow’ Maoist ideology, Sukma superintendent of police Sunil Sharma told.

Podiami Lakshman, a militia commander carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, was among those who surrendered before the police.  The remaining ultras were active as members of the militia and Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sangthan, Krantikari Mahila Adivasi Sangthan, Chetna Natya Mandli — all the frontal wings of the Maoists, in different areas of the south Bastar, he said.

The SP said the surrendered ultras were also ‘impressed’ by the district police’s rehabilitation drive for the Maoists called puna narkom (a term coined in local Gondi dialect which means new dawn). The surrendered Maoists will be provided with facilities as per the surrender and rehabilitation policy of the Chhattisgarh government.