CPI-M wants Maoist killers in Andhra caught

NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday urged the Andhra Pradesh government to track down Maoists who recently killed two CPI-M workers in Bhadrachalam district.

The party urged the police and the administration to catch the killers of Komanapalli village sarpanch Kaviti Rajulu and his father, who were dragged out of their house and murdered.

“The Maoists are targeting the CPI-M wherever they are working in the tribal areas and among the rural poor,” a party statement said.

“Apart from the killing spree in West Midnapur and adjoining districts in West Bengal, the Maoists in recent months have killed a CPI-M worker in Kanker district in Chhattisgarh and attacked a party office in Sundargarh district in Orissa.

“These violent and murderous activities of the Maoists exposes their true nature. They help the reactionary forces and the ruling classes by targeting the cadres and workers of the CPI-M who have been organising the people.”