Chhattisgarh encounter: Death of Maoist top leader Nambala Keshav Rao deals major blow to Naxalism
Rao co-founded the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War in 1980 and rose to become a Central Committee member by 1992. Following the 2004 merger that formed the CPI (Maoist), he was appointed head of the Central Military Commission and became a Politburo member.
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