There has been a lot of speculation about a likely cessation by top Maoist leader Muppalla Lakshman Rao alias Ganapathi. He had served as the general secretary of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) for 25 years from 1992 to 2017 and carried a reward of Rs 1.5 crore on his head. Many reports have speculated that he may surrender due to ill health. While some sources indicate that surrender is a possible option, according to other reliable sources, the speculations of a possible surrender by Ganapathi could be an attempt at demotivating party cadre. 

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However, Noel Swaranjit Sen, former DGP of former Andhra Pradesh objects with this theory, he says, “Such news will not surface without any specific inputs. There is a high possibility that surrender can happen. Even the best of Maoists have surrendered in the past.” The CPI (Maoist) party however has strongly rejected the rumor. In a statement, the banned party said, "We are condemning Modi government’s brutal lie of Ganapathy's surrender". It went on to say that PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Advisor to Home Ministry Vijaya Kumar were conspiring with the Telangana and Chhattisgarh intelligence agencies to propagate the lie and turn away attention from the economic chaos in the country.

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Ganapathi hails from the Jagityal district, which was part of preceding Karimnagar district of Telangana. He graduated with a degree in Science and later became a teacher when he decided to join the Maoist Party in the ’70s. He had played an important role in the formation of the CPI (Maoist) party with the merger of CPI-ML (People's War Group) and MCCI (Maoist Communist Centre of India) in 2004.

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