Four Maoists including a former Commander of Jan Militia surrendered before the police in the insurgency-hit Kondagaon district in Bastar on Wednesday.
The Maoist cadres were disillusioned with the ideology and disappointed by discrimination in the banned outfit, said SP Kondagaon, Abhishek Meena.Sada (34), a former Commander of Barda Jan Militia surrendered before the police along with three members of Barda Janmilitia including Dukalu (32), Shardu Kavde (22) and Manguram (32), said Meena.
All the surrendered Maoist cadres are residents of Bada Dongar in Kondagaon district and were involved in incidents of loot of ballot boxes, damage to Government property, firing on police party with intention to loot arms and kidnapping, police said. Police said that the surrendered rebels alleged that they were forced to join the banned outfit and committed crime for the organisation after getting life threats.
They accused the Maoist cadres based in Andhra Pradesh of ill-treating the Chhattisgarh cadres and of thwarting development works in Chhattisgarh. Construction of schools and roads are not allowed in Chhattisgarh. They were not allowed to meet their families.Thus disappointed and harassed, they decided to give up and join the social mainstream, said Meena, adding, that they would be rehabilitated as per the Chhattisgarh Government’s policy.