‘Violence led to the fall of Maoism’
The man well past 70 years of age, dressed in simple shirt and trousers, wearing a faint yellow scarf around his neck, with a broad grin on his face and briskness in his walk, was a part of the powerful Central Committee of the proscribed organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist) … till he surrendered last year before Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at Gadchiroli. His surrender made national and international news, because he was treated as the ‘brain’ or ‘ideological teacher’ of the...
