Revolution cannot happen by killing people Raghu Sadmate, 39, joined the People's War Group when he was 15. He rose through the ranks to become a member of the powerful Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, which controls the Maoist fortress stretching across five states. Owing to the internal politics in the organisation, he quit and surrendered to the police in 2009. As part of the police's rehabilitation efforts, Sadmate was...

Living by the gun The Communist Party of India (Maoist) was formed on September 21, 2004 with the merging of the People's War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCC). PWG leader Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapati was made the general secretary of the central committee.The UPA government banned CPI (Maoist) on June 22, 2009, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.Some of the major...