Recent surrenders of Central Committee Members mark a decisive setback for India’s naxalite insurgency, underscoring how armed revolutionary politics has become both costly and irrelevant

By PV Ramana

Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna, a Central Committee Member (CCM), and Bandi Prakash, Telangana State Committee Member (SCM), surrendered in Hyderabad on October 28, 2025. Both cited health problems and old age as reasons for their surrender.

Earlier, Mallojula Venugopal Rao, popularly known as Bhupathi and later Sonu, surrendered to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, on October 14, 2025. He is both a CCM and a Politburo Member, besides being the senior-most CCM to surrender in the past eight years. Two other CCMs surrendered earlier.

Bhupathi

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