Hyderabad, March 7 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has appealed to top Maoist leader and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy and all remaining revolutionaries to surrender and join the mainstream society.

A total of 130 Maoists, including three State Committee Members (SCMs), one Regional Committee Member, ten Divisional Committee Members, 46 Area Committee Members, and 70 foot soldiers, laid down their arms before the chief minister at the Integrated Command Control Center (ICCC) on Saturday, March 7.

Weapons included one INSAS LMG rifle, AK-47 rifles (31), INSAS rifles (21), SLR rifles (20), 303 rifles (18), and 33 other guns and 7,000 bullets.

The surren...