Hyderabad, March 14 -- Senior Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Thippiri Tirupati alias Devji, who surrendered before the Telangana Police last month, on Friday appealed to the state and central governments to lift the ban on the outfit and acknowledge it as a mainstream political party. Devji said that once the ban on the outfit is lifted, there was a possibility that all the remaining leaders and cadres would join the mainstream. "This is what we had requested Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy during our recent meeting at the state secretariat. We also requested that all the arrested Maoists and sympathisers, including the so-called urban Naxalites like those arrested in Bhima Koregaon case, be declared as political prisoner...