Hyderabad, Dec. 20 -- As many as 41 members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), including six senior functionaries and four Telangana state committee members, surrendered before Telangana director general of police B Shivadhar Reddy on Friday.

Speaking to reporters, the DGP said prominent among the surrendered Maoists were: Erragolla Ravi alias Santhosh (40) from Arepally in Kamareddy district, a Telangana state committee member and divisional committee secretary who had been underground for 24 years and Kanikarapu Prabhanjan (33) from Jannaram in Mancherial district, a platoon committee member.

"Besides, a large number of Maoist party functionaries from Chhattisgarh chose to surrender before the Telangana police along with...