AOB encounter: Maoists' families stage protest at Guntur for judicial probe

Guntur: Protests by Maoist sympathisers and families of police martyrs rocked Guntur on Friday.

Sirisha, wife of top Maoist Ramakrishna alias RK, staged a protest demanding a judicial probe in the recent encounter on the Andhra-Odisha Border, while Amaraveerula Bandhumitrula Sangham activists staged a protest in front of Ambedkar statue at Lodge centre in Guntur.

Coming to know of the protest, the family members of police martyrs rushed to the spot and staged a counter protest alleging murder of cops by Maoists.

Ms Srisha said that she got information about her husband from revolutionary poet Varavara Rao. She claimed that Malkangiri encounter was fake and a massacre of Maoists on the orders of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Revolutionary writer G. Kalyan Rao alleged that that the Central and state governments of AP and Odisha had planned to loot the natural bauxite resources of the two states and hence had staged the Malkangiri massacre to create fear among the locals and drive them away from the area.

He alleged that the government is committing atrocities on the common people living on the AOB.

Mr Kalyan Rao also alleged that political parties were coming to npower solely on the basis of offering sops, and were later helping the corporate sector at the cost of the people.

Kulanirmulana Porata Samiti chief D. Prabhakar demanded registration of cases on cops for killing Maoists.

Meanwhile, families of the policemen killed by Maoists rushed to the spot and staged a protest of their own, showing placards.

Quoting Maoist representative Jagabandhu, they said that the Naxals had fired first on policemen which led to the cops returning fire.

They alleged that Maoists had fought against India for the past 40 years, violated human rights, and were murdering informers.

Police, led by Guntur ASP J. Bhaskar Rao rushed to the spot and dispersed the two groups.