Thirty-seven underground members of the banned CPI (Maoist), including three senior State Committee Members, returned to the mainstream in Hyderabad on Saturday in what police described as one of the most substantial setbacks to the outfit in recent years.

All individuals were presented before the Telangana Police, marking the culmination of years of sustained pressure, dwindling organisational cohesion and rising ideological fatigue within Maoist ranks.

The three senior leaders who came out are Koyyada Sambaiah known as Azad (49), a native of Moddulagudem in Govindaraopet mandal of Mulugu district who had been underground for thirty one years and served as State Committee Member and Secretary of the BK ASR Divisional Committee; Appasi Narayana known as Ramesh (70), a native of Ramagunda

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