Hyderabad, September 21: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet today extended by another one year the ban on CPI (Maoist) and its six frontal organisations.
The Government had on August 16, by an order, extended for a further one year the ban on CPI (Maoist) along with Radical Youth League, All India Revolutionary Students Federation, Radical Students Union, Singareni Karmika Samakhya and Viplava Karmika Samakhya, its frontal wings.
The State Cabinet chaired by Cheif Minister K Rosaiah ratified the order today extending the ban under Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, State Information Minister Dr J Geeta Reddy said in her post-Cabinet media briefing here.
Soon after the Congress-TRS coalition government came to power in 2004, the government withdrew the ban on CPI-ML (People’s War) to facilitate the first ever direct talks with the militant organisations in October 2004.
As the talks were underway at Hyderabad, the People’s War had announced that it merged with Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) to form CPI-Maoist— a move which the Centre also wanted to avert and had encouraged Andhra Pradesh to hold talks.
The ban on CPI-Maoist was reimposed less than a year after the Maoists gunned down Congress Legislator C Narsi Reddy. The Union Home Ministry had in June last year termed CPI-Maoist as a terrorist organisation.
–UNI