Wednesday | Jun 25 2025 | 08:08:12 PM
New Delhi, June 10
The CRPF and Chhattisgarh Police recently neutralized Maoist leader and strategist B Sudhakar, a brutal CPI (M) leader targetted and radicalized tribal youth to join Maoism.
Known for his knack in technology, communication, languages, Sudhakar allegedly had a strong hand in guerilla warfare.
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Sudhakar was wanted for more than two decades and was involved in numerous naxals attacks on security forces in Chhattisgarh. He was carrying a cash reward of Rs. 40 lakhs and a joint cash reward of Rs. 85 lakhs with Andhra Pradesh government.
Sudhakar was known by many aliases Anand, Chanti Balakrishna, Ramaraju, Aravind and Somanna. He was a resident of Pragadavaram village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Sudhakar, a member of the Maoists' Central Committee, the topmost governing body of the outlawed CPI (Maoist), was also in-charge of RePOS (Revolutionary Political School) and Central Regional Bureau (CRB).
He studied in CR Reddy College in Eluru and even studied Ayurveda for a short time in Vijaywada. As a young student, before he quit academics, he allegedly got drawn to People's Civil Liberation movement in 1986 and thus began his journey in naxal movement.
Apart from serving as a member of the Central Committee, Sudhakar was considered one of the key ideologues and strategists of the Maoist movement in central India. He was active in the Maoist movement for more than 40 years. Interestingly, he had also participated in the 2004 peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government and naxal groups.
Sudhakar was a strategist, tutor and ran the naxal network in three states Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. He was fluent in three languages and his command in Hindi besides Telugu helped him get more youth from Chhattisgarh to the cadres. His wife Kakarala Guru Smruthi is also a naxal leader and a state committee region in Dandakaranya region.
udhakar studied at CR Reddy College in Eluru and briefly enr ..
An elite operation was launched on June 5 by the CRPF's COBRA unit alongwith Special Task Force and District Reserve Guards of Chhattisgarh Police at Indravati national park area with an intel on the presence of Sudhakar in the area. The operation went on for several hours till body of Sudhakar fell marking an end of the wanted leader. The forces had got exact input on the presence of two more Maoists- one Telangana State Committee member Bandi Prakash, and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee member Pappa Rao who were neutralized on June 7.
Sudhakar has become the fourth central committee member of the Maoist to have been eliminated so far this year. Sudhakar's encounter took place days after the security forces eliminated Basavaraju, top naxal commander in Abujhmad forest of Chhattisgarh a week before.
His death marks a major success for security forces and is a significant blow to the Maoist leadership, particularly in the Dandakaranya region covering south Chhattisgarh and border areas of Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha).
Sudhakar's fall is no less than biggest blow to naxalism in Chhattisgarh after top leader Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju, Chander Yadav from Jharkhand and Pratap Reddy Ramchandra carrying bounty of Rs. 1 crore respectively were reduced to dust.
With the top naxal leaders eliminated in first six months of the year, Home Minister Amit Shah's call for naxal free Bharat by March 2026 is not far.
