Naxal suffers major blow as senior cadre couple surrenders in Chhattisgarh

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In a significant setback to the CPI (Maoist), a senior Naxal couple active in Left Wing Extremism for the past 25 years surrendered before the police and the ITBP in Chhattisgarh.

Mohla Manpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 1 (HBTV): In a significant setback to the CPI (Maoist), a senior Naxal couple active in Left Wing Extremism for the past 25 years surrendered before the police and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Chhattisgarh's Mohla Manpur district on Wednesday.

The couple, Jeevan Tulavi (45), alias Ram Tulavi, and his wife Agasha (35), alias Aarti Korram, surrendered before Inspector General (Rajnandgaon Range) Abhishek Shandilya, Superintendent of Police Y. P. Singh, and Commandant of the 27 Battalion ITBP Vivek Kumar Pandey, along with officers from the 44 Battalion ITBP.

According to an official release from the ITBP, Jeevan Tulavi, a resident of Parvidih village under Mohla police station, was a Divisional Committee Member (DVCM) and the Education Unit Commander of the Maad Division. A reward of INR 8 lakh had been declared on him.

Tulavi joined the CPI (Maoist) in 2008 and initially worked with the military wing of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in South Rajnandgaon. After 2012–13, he was assigned to the Mobile Political School (MOPOS) of the Maad Division as a teacher propagating Maoist ideology. He subsequently led the division’s education unit, travelling across villages in Abujhmad and conducting ideological training through the Mobile Academic School (MAS).

His wife, Agasha, a resident of Telitola village under Mohla police station, served as an Area Committee Member (ACM). She worked with the press team of the Maad Division and headed the Chetna Natya Mandali (CNM), the cultural wing of the Maoists. Since the early 2000s, she has performed as a singer, dancer, poet, orator, and composer, and was also responsible for computer operations and preparing press releases for the group.

Over the last 15 years, sustained operations by the police and ITBP in the erstwhile Rajnandgaon district—now Mohla Manpur Ambagarh district—have severely weakened left wing extremist activity. Notably, five senior cadres from the region have surrendered in the past three months, delivering a major blow to the Maoists in a district that shares its border with the LWE-affected areas of Gadchiroli and Kanker.

(ANI)