Hyderabad, Aug. 11 -- Kakarala Samatha alias Madhavi, surrendered to Telangana DGP C V Anand on Monday, August 10.

In a significant setback to the CPI (Maoist), Samatha, one of its senior-most ideologues and a State Committee Member handling women's issues and intelligence-propaganda in urban areas, quit the banned outfit and joined the mainstream, the Telangana Police said in a release.

Samatha is a native of Rajamahendravaram in Andhra Pradesh.

Her father, Kakarala Sathyanarayana, is a film actor who has acted in about 300 movies, it said. He migrated from Rajamahendravaram to Chennai in 1960.

In 1985, while studying in the second year of Intermediate in Chennai, she discontinued her studies and joined the CPI (ML) PW.

In 1991, she...