Madvi Hidma (born c.1981Hidma is listed as 35 in 2016. Hidma is listed as 36 in 2017. ) is the youngest member of the Central Committee of

Communist Party of India (Maoist) The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a Marxism–Leninism–Maoism, Marxist–Leninist–Maoist banned Communism, communist political party and militant organization in India which aims to overthrow the "semi-colonial and semi-feudal In ...

. Hidma is allegedly responsible for various attacks on the security forces in

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, and the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley. A

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has been placed for his capture.

Career

Hidma was born in Purvati village of south Sukma in the Indian state of

. He is also known as Hidmalu alias Santosh and is the face of

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in Bastar. After completion of education up to class 10, he joined the Party and became a master strategist of military operation and

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. Hidma was arrested in 2016 along with six other alleged naxals, at the time he was considered a low-level participant. About that time, Hidma became the area commander of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army Battalion No 1 and an active member of the

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Special Zonal Committee of the

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, which operates in the Sukma,

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and

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areas. He was promoted to the Party's Central Committee as the youngest member. It is believed that Hidma is one of the masterminds behind a number of fierce attacks on security personnel that took place about a decade ago, including the

April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, leading to the killing of 76 CRPF ...

and

2017 Sukma attack The Sukma attack was an ambush carried out by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) against Indian paramilitary forces on 24 April 2017, during the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency. It was the largest ambush since a April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewad ...

. All told he is cited as being responsible for twenty-six separate attacks. Indian Agencies have also declared a ₹45 Lakh bounty on his head.

2021 activities

Hidma was the objective of the security forces' planned 3 April 2021 attack on the Maoists; their intent had been to capture Madvi Hidma along with his associates. The planned attack of approximately 2,000 security forces, consisting of

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's specialised jungle warfare unit

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(CoBRA) combined with some of its regular battalions, and with units of District Reserve Guard (DRG) of

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was in turn ambushed by about 400 guerrilla. In the five hour battle, there were twenty-three deaths among the security forces as per the police report: eight CRPF, eight from the district reserve group and six special task force members. Also thirty-three others were listed as casualties, with thirteen being severely injured. In this battle the Maoists lost around fifteen members of people's liberation guerrilla army including a woman who was killed in the attack as per the police. The ambush occurred in the south Bastar forest where security intel had indicated that a major meeting of militants was to occur.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hidma, Madvi Living people Anti-revisionists Indian guerrillas Indian Marxists Naxalites People from Sukma district 1981 births