Hyderabad, July 04: Rattled by the killing of its top leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, the banned CPI (Maoist) today called for a two-day strike from July 7 and vowed to avenge his death, prompting authorities to beef up security in Naxal-hit areas.
The body of Azad, a senior member of the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee who was killed in an encounter in Adilabad district on Friday, was today cremated at Punjagutta crematorium in Hyderabad in the presence of his family members and a large number of people including Maoist sympathisers and revolutionary poets- Varavara Rao and Kalyan Rao.
In a statement, the the CPI (Maoist) alleged that Azad was “murdered” by intelligence agencies of the Centre and Andhra Pradesh government.
–Agencies