NIA declares ₹7 lakh bounty on Maoist leader Madvi Hidma
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He leads the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army Battalion 1 of the Maoists.
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A file photo of Madvi Hidma, pictured in a forest in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district. Photo: Special Arrangement
He leads the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army Battalion 1 of the Maoists. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has declared a reward of ₹7 lakh for the arrest of Madvi Hidma, who heads the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Battalion 1 of the Maoists, a lethally armed and trained unit of the banned group active in southern Chhattisgarh, one of the worst areas affected by Left Wing Extremism.
Ranchi: The Eastern Regional Buro (ERB) of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has called for a Bharat bandh on April 26 against the killing of their cadres by security forces in Chhattisgarh and Bihar during “Operation Prahar” and appealed to the masses for support.
In a press communiqué issued by Sanket, the spokesperson of the ERB, the banned organisation has detailed the reasons for calling the bandh in the backdrop of statements issued by Union home minister Amit Shah after the Chhattisgarh gunbattle.
Blaming the RSS-supported BJP government at the Centre for pushing the commoners to a “war-like situation” and targetting sons of the soil , Sanket said Operation Prahar , planned by the Centre, is not going to be successful as the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist cadres are ready.
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Four BSF personnel were killed and two others injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh s Kanker district in 2019 (Representational image)
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