Top Maoist leader Gudsa Usendi along with his wife Santoshi have reportedly surrendered before the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) that supervises anti-Maoist operations in the state.
Though SIB officials even confirmed that the spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), surrendered, they however didn’t share details.
Usendi who hails from Warangal district was involved in left-wing extremism for nearly two decades and is playing a key role in Chhattisgarh, the hotbed of Maoists who had given the world the chilling news of the Bastar ambush in which 17 people, including top Congress leaders VC Shukla and Mahendra Karma, were killed in May last.
Usendi was also the mastermind of the infamous Tadmetla attack in Chhattisgarh, in which 76 CRPF personnel perished in 2010. Sources say that health problems forced the Maoist top gun to surrender. He had completed his Intermediate at Babu Jagjivan Ram College at Lakdi-kapul and later went underground in 1984 and joined the Naxalite movement.
