New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- With six months remaining in the Union government's self-imposed deadline to eliminate Left Wing Extremism the ranks of the CPI (Maoist) have thinned to only three politburo members and 9 central committee members, officials familiar with the matter said. Of the three politburo members, only two are believed to be active.
The third, Mupalla Lakshman Rao, alias Ganapathy, one of the most wanted men in the country, is no longer active, they added, asking not to be named. The assessment is based on a list prepared by security forces in Chhattisgarh. The officials said that at its peak between 2003 and 2010, the proscribed CPI(Maoist) had around 40-45 central committee members, of which 10-14 were politburo members. P10
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