A special conference of the Maoists, active in the tribal areas in the Kerala, was held at a secret location in Chhattisgarh from April 20 to 25.
Sources said senior leaders of the CPI(Maoist), including its general secretary Ganapathy, spoke in the conference.
The meeting was held in the Maoist stronghold as it was felt that Kerala was not safe for holding such a high-profile meeting.
The focus of discussion was the document on rectification process prepared by the central committee of the party. All the states, except Kerala and Punjab, had completed their special conferences much earlier.
Sources said around 20 underground Maoists, including its former state secretary Roopesh alias Praveen alias Mohan, attended the conference.
Roopesh, against whom there is a case of harbouring Maoist leader Malla Raji Reddy, has been given some assignments in the Dandakaranya region.
He and his wife Shyna have been absconding ever since the police launched a hunt after the arrest of Reddy in Ankamali in 2007.
The conference of the Maoists in the urban areas will be held soon, after which there will be a national conference of all the units.
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12-hr nonstop Rabindra sangeet on varsity radio
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Bhubaneswar
May 8: Ravenshaw Radio 90.4 MHz, the campus community radio of Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, is observing Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary or three-day-long Rabindra Jayanti celebration from May 7 to 9 in a unique way, by airing his immortal songs for 12 hours non-stop from 10 am to 10 pm on all the three days from May 7 to 9.
Denizens of Cuttack and neighbouring areas within a radius of 8-10 km can listen to the special transmission of some of the choicest and most popular songs of Tagore.
“Apart from playing his timeless songs on the radio, we have other grandiose plans to celebrate Tagore’s birthday all through the year,” informed vice-chancellor of Ravenshaw University, Devdas Chhotray on Sunday.
“We are planning to establish a Tagore Centre for Performing Arts at Ravenshaw University in collaboration with Rabindra Bharati University of Kolkata. Besides, there will be year-long events comprising music concerts, seminars and literary symposia,” he informed