A surprising incident took place yesterday. Jampanna, one fo the most-wanted central committee members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) and his wife surrendered before the Telangana Police in Hyderabad on Friday evening. The 57-year-old Maoist leader, Jinugu Narasimha Reddy alias Jampanna alias JP, told police that he was suffering from several ailments and was holed up at Kandhamal in Odisha before he decided to surrender to them.

Coming to the developments in his surrender, he approached a leader of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Warangal, who facilitated the surrender through the Mahbubabad District Superintendent of Police N Koti Reddy. Telangana Police called Jampanna’s surrender a “shot in the arm for security forces”.

“For more than 20 years, this man was responsible for strengthening the Maoist movement in North Telangana districts and adjoining Dandakaranya area. He is very strong, both ideologically and in terms of military strategy,” an official said about the same.

Jampanna’s entry into this off the line has begun 34 years ago along with his wife Hinge Rajita, who has an MSc degree from Osmania University also joined him in 2003. The two got married three years later. The government also issued a Rs 20 lakh reward on his head, hails from Cherlopalem village in the erstwhile Warangal district. His family owns 11.5 acres of prime wetland in the village.

Meanwhile, last time Jampanna was seen in public was in Kamalapur on May Day, 1990. He was spotted at the AP Rayons Factory, where revolutionary poet and writer Varavara Rao was also present to mediate between striking workers and the management. “He was the outfit’s central organizer and in-charge of Nagaram area. That was the last time he was seen in public. He must have been around 30 then,’’ Rao said.

Now, soon after he was surrendered, Jampanna was reunited with his mother after approximately 40 years. Her reaction after acknowledging son is simply priceless. The video is taking the Internet by storm. Watch it here:

Coming to the criminal front, Jampanna has 18 cases registered against him in the erstwhile Warangal district alone, including nine for murder, two for dacoity and three for the exchange of fire with police. Officials said that he and his wife will receive the Rs 20 lakh reward money, as well as several benefits under the surrender policy of the Telangana government which ultimately made the couple to surrender.

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