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A.P. lifts ban on writers' forum

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The three-month-old ban on the Revolutionary Writers' Association (RWA) was lifted by the Andhra Pradesh Government on Thursday following a recommendation by the Advisory Board headed by Justice T. L. N. Reddy.

The revocation, effected through a GO, will free RWA (Virasam) president G. Kalyan Rao and its executive member P. Varavara Rao, now lodged in a jail, from the charges framed under the A.P. Public Security Act. But, they are unlikely to be released from jail immediately as they face charges in seven other cases. The ban was imposed on Virasam along with the CPI (Maoist) and seven other revolutionary organisations on August 17 after Congress MLA C. Narsi Reddy was killed by naxalites in Mahabubnagar district. The Home Minister signed the proposal a week ago and the Chief Minister was stated to have cleared it on Wednesday..

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