Gajerla Ravi’s death is another jolt to CPI (Maoist), his native village in Telangana plunges into grief

The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has lost another top-ranking leader from Telangana following the death of 57-year-old Gajerla Ravi alias Uday — a native of Velishala village in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district — in an “encounter” in Alluri Sitarama Raju district of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh early on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) morning.

The incident comes less than a fortnight after the death of the CPI (Maoist) Telangana State committee member, Mailarapu Adellu alias Bhaskar, of Pocherla village in Adilabad district, in an “exchange of fire” in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on June 5, 2025.