HYDERABAD: Maoist central committee member Gajarla Ravi grew to become Wednesday the sixth member of his prolonged family to be killed in a gunfight with security forces, marking the tip of a generational affiliation with insurgency that noticed 4 of patriarch Gajarla Mallaiah’s 5 sons go underground and two of them fall to bullets, studies U Sudhakarreddy.A senior intelligence official stated 56-year-old Ravi, a native of Velishala in Telangana’s Warangal district, was solely seven when he began operating errands for CPI (Maoist), together with placing up propaganda posters in his village. He would go on to choose up the gun, barring a temporary interval when his brother Saraiah acquired him to enrol for a course on the Industrial Training Institute in Peddapalli. Ravi and his brothers – inherited their Maoist leanings from their father.Ravi’s brother Saraiah was killed in a gunfight with anti-Maoist forces contained in the Kanthanapally forest in Warangal in April 2008. His spouse Padma, alias Radha, died in the identical operation.Ravi’s spouse Nidigonda Prameela, alias Meena, was the divisional committee secretary until her demise in an encounter at Andrapalli in 2018.Another brother, Gajarla Ashok alias Aithu, was a district committee secretary of south Bastar. He surrendered in 2015 and now works as a reporter with a native newspaper. His spouse, Shanigarapu Uma alias Anitha is a nurse in a personal hospital in Hanamkonda.The eldest of the brothers, Gajarla Rajaiah alias Posaiah, died of sickness. The just one among the many siblings to not have been half of any Maoist denomination is Gajarla Sammaiah, a retired coal employee in Mancherial. Ravi’s brother-in-law Ramesh, alias Naveen, was killed by police commandos in July 2020.
