Ganapathy (Maoist)

Muppala Lakshmana Rao
Muppala Lakshmana Rao in 2005
1st General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
In office
21st September 2004 – 10th November 2018
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byNambala Keshava Rao
Personal details
Born (1949-06-16) 16 June 1949 (age 75)
Beerpur, Jagtial, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other political
affiliations
People's War Group
OccupationPolitician, former teacher

Muppala Lakshmana Rao, commonly known by his nom de guerre Ganapathy (otherwise spelt Ganapathi), is a major figure in the Indian Maoist movement[1] and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned[2] Maoist insurgent[3] communist party in India. He resigned from the post in November 2018.[4]

  1. ^ Sekhri, Abhinav (16 February 2012). "Intrview with Rahul Pandita". News laundry India.
  2. ^ LIST OF ORGANISATIONS DECLARED AS TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS UNDER THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967 - Ministry of Home Affairs Archived 28 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Deepak Kapoor (2009). South Asia Defence And Strategic Year Book. Pentagon Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-81-8274-399-1.
  4. ^ http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Statements-2018/181110-CC-GeneralSecretaryChange-Eng.pdf [bare URL PDF]