Muppalla Lakshmana Rao (Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

: ముప్పల లక్ష్మణ రావు) alias Ganapathy is present General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October...

. He was born in village Beerpur in Sarangapur

Sarangapur

Sarangapur is a village and a Mandal in Karimnagar district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in IndiaThe nearest connectivity to sarangapur is through Jagityal, karimnagar...

 mandal in Karimnagar

Karimnagar

As of 2011 India census Estimation, Karimnagar city had a population of 2,99,660. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49% has an average literacy rate of 86.75%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 92.61%, and female literacy is 80.79%. In Karimnagar, 12% of...

 district of Andhra Pradesh. He worked as teacher in Karimnagar district and deserted his job for higher education in Warangal. There, he met Maoist leaders Nalla Adi Reddy and Kondapalli Seetharamaiah

Kondapalli Seetharamaiah

-Early life:Kondapalli Seetharamaiah was born into a rich family in lingavaram village, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. Brought up in Jonnapadu village, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.-Political career:...

 and he joined the naxalite

Naxalite

The word Naxal, Naxalite or Naksalvadi is a generic term used to refer to various militant Communist groups operating in different parts of India under different organizational envelopes...

 movement. He was one of the early members of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and grew as General Secretary of the party that is now called as Communist Party of India (Maoist).

See also

• Cherukuri Rajkumar
  Cherukuri Rajkumar
  Cheruri Rajkumar alias Azad was the spokesperson and one of the seniormost members of the Central Politburo of the Communist Party of India . He was killed by the Andhra Pradesh Police near Sarkapalli in Adilabad district of the state, near the border with Maharashtra, on July 1, 2010. He was an...
  
  
• Mallojula Koteswara Rao
  Mallojula Koteswara Rao
  Mallojula Koteswara Rao , commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishenji, was a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India and the group's military leader.-Early Life:...
  
  
• Prashant Bose
  Prashant Bose
  Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan, is a senior Politburo member of the Communist Party of India . He has previously used Nirbhay Mukherjee, Kajal, Kishan-da and Mahesh as aliases. Kishan, the former MCCI chief is now No. 2 in the CPI . He is in charge of Bihar and Jharkhand...
  
  
• Naxalite
  Naxalite
  The word Naxal, Naxalite or Naksalvadi is a generic term used to refer to various militant Communist groups operating in different parts of India under different organizational envelopes...
  
  
• Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
  Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
  The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country."...
  
  

External Links

• Interview with Ganapathy by the Swedish writer Jan Myrdal
  Jan Myrdal
  Jan Myrdal is a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He is an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, USA, and a Ph.D. at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He has lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India...
  
  January 2010