Maoists vow suicide attack on CM Chandra Babu and Lokesh

The CPI (Maoist) had released a letter they swear a suicide attack on the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his son N.Lokesh, to the avenge of killing 29 of their cadre in an encounter at Malkangiri. Sources says that there had been intelligence inputs that Maoists had links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The four-page letter sent to media in the state, in which Shyam (CPI-Maoist AP Committee spokesperson) said Chandrababu escaped the attempt on his life at Alipiri, Tirumala in October 2003, but he would not be able to escape this time. No police or military force can save you this time. Shyam alleged that Chandra Babu was notorious for such killings in the past. Soon after returning to the power he killed 21 labourers in a fake encounter branding them as red sanders smugglers.

Describing Monday’s encounter as fake, Shyam alleged that the Greyhounds (the elite anti-Maoist force of Andhra Pradesh police) using their coverts mixed poison in the food given to the Maoists, after they felled unconscious the police opened fire at them and killed 24 of them indiscriminately. He also alleged  that the police forces kidnapped some of the injured Maoists and tortured them for several hours, they killed four of them on Tuesday.