Nambala Keshava Rao
Nambala Keshava Rao | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Other names | Basavraj, Ganganna |
Occupation | General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Maoist) |
Organization | Communist Party of India (Maoist) |
Known for | Far-left politics |
Nambala Keshava Rao, commonly known by his nom de guerre Basavraj or Gaganna, is an Indian Maoist politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), currently on NIA's list of most wanted absconders.
He was the Chief of Party's Central Military Commission. In November 2018, he became the Supreme Commander of the Party after the resignation of
Early life
Rao hails from Jiyannapet village of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh. He is a former kabaddi player, passed B.Tech from Regional Engineering College, now known as National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He was active in left wing student politics and attached with CPI-ML (People’s War). Rao was arrested only once in 1980 at Srikakulam[3] when there was a clash between two students’ unions, Radical Students Union (RSU) and the RSS student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). He owned no property in his name in his native village, which he left in the late 1970s.[4]
Political life
Intelligence source said that Rao occupies strong military tactics in the form of
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