Nagpur/Raipur, Oct. 15 -- Senior Maoist leader and CPI (Maoist) politburo member, Mallojula Venugopal alias Bhupathi, 69, the first senior Naxal leader to call for abandoning the armed struggle, surrendered before Maharashtra's Gadchiroli police on Monday night along with 10 senior party leaders and 61-armed cadre, at Laheri, on the fringes of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh. According to Gadchiroli police, Venugopal and his associates will formally lay down their arms before Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday. P12
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