Hyderabad, July 6 -- The Telangana government here revoked its ban on 16 organisations, including the Revolutionary Writers Association, known as Virasam, June 23. An order was passed earlier on March 30 banning those organisations, on the claim that all of them were frontal bodies of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) or CPI-Maoist, and that they were engaged in "tactics" that "wage war against the state".

The previous order banning all the organisations was passed on March 30, but it was released to the public only in April. Now, a notification in the Telangana Gazette by the state government, issued by chief secretary Somesh Kumar on June 23, stated that the previous order banning the 16 organisations has been revoked.

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