India, Oct. 19 -- The banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has declared its surrendered top leaders including Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias Sonu and Takkallapalli Vasudeva Rao alias Rupesh as "traitors to the revolution" and called upon the "revolutionary cadre" to punish these "betrayers" according "revolutionary justice".

In a four-page Telugu statement dated October 16 that was released to media on Sunday, CPI (Maoist) party's central committee spokesperson Abhay said the surrender of Sonu, along with Dandakaranya special zonal committee member Deepa and 60 others before Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 14 at Gadchiroli was a counter-revolutionary act, a betrayal of the Maoist party and an action that weaken...