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Papi Reddy a renegade: Maoists

K. Srinivas Reddy

HYDERABAD: The Maoist Central Committee member, Lanka Papi Reddy, who surrendered to the police last week, was demoted and shifted out of the State where he was working, on charges, including misbehaviour with women naxalites, the Maoist party disclosed on Saturday.

Ridiculing the claim that Papi Reddy, known as Lachanna, surrendered due to ill-health, the party’s Central Committee spokesman, Azad, said Papi Reddy ‘had behaved in the most irresponsible way by committing a mistake of a very serious nature’.

Shocking

In a detailed statement, Azad said it was shocking for all the party members to see “such degenerate behaviour and extreme political weakness from a member of the highest committee of our party.” He disclosed that in the wake of his ‘misbehaviour’ with a woman cadre, the Central Committee passed a resolution in December 2007 demoting him to ZC level and transferred him out of the State he was working. The party hoped that he would transform like a true revolutionary, but this did not happen.

In mid 2004, he was warned about his ‘patriarchal attitude, irresponsible and provocative behaviour with a woman comrade’. However, he suffered from infatuation for his own capabilities while underplaying the better capabilities of others, Azad maintained. Due to these weaknesses he lost confidence in revolution in the backdrop of the series of losses suffered by the party in the recent years. Through his surrender, he became another addition to the list of betrayers of the revolutionary cause, Azad said.

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