Katakam Sudarshan, commonly known by his

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, Anand (), is a

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member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a

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in India.

Early life and family

Anand was born at Adilabad in

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, and pursued education at the government

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, in

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. He has worked as a teacher to financially support his higher education. He married the Adiladab district secretary of CPI (Maoist), Sadhana. She was gunned down by the police force, few years back.

Guerrilla life

Anand is one of the senior-most cadres of the ultra-leftist political party, and has been leading the ongoing armed struggle from northern

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to Dandakaranya, for over 30 years. He is described by Indian police as a "soft spoken" person, an "orthodox"

and a "hardline strategist". He is prominently known for chalking out the policies of the party in the political arena, and upholds that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. After the completion of his studies, Anand joined the radical leftists in 1975; and in 1979, he shifted to

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. In the 1980s, he became a member of the

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(People's War Group), founded by

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. He is famous for his "ruthless guerilla warfare tactics" and has been designated the duty of training the cadres in "

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", and planning "military precision strikes" on the armed forces, in the territory of Chhattisgarh. He is a Central Military Commission and Politburo member of CPI (Maoist), and is believed to be heading the Eastern Regional Bureau of the party, after Kishenji's elimination in the ongoing Maoist movement in India. He has also worked as the chief of the Central Regional Bureau of the CPI (Maoist). Responding on a question about the

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's "

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" during an interview, he said to journalists, "We have been in the middle of a cruel, bitter war for several years." In 2010, he told media personnel that out of the 45 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), 8 has been arrested and 22 has been killed by the agencies of the Indian government. He is also reportedly working on the task to attempt stalling the "Operation Green Hunt". A senior police officer once told ''

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'' that "Sudarshan is not a

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like Azad and was against his party’s initiative to hold talks with the government."

References

External links

International Campaign Against War on the People in India

People’s War in India: Interview with Comrade Anand of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
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Man behind the Dantewada attack
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Early life and family

Guerrilla life

See also

References

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