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HYDERABAD: Two days after Communist Party of India (Maoist) announced the death of Central Committee (CC) member and Telangana Maoist state committee secretary Haribushan due to Covid-19, his wife Saradakka has also succumbed to the infection.
The information about her death has been reportedly shared by Maoist party with Saradakka’s family residing in Mahabubabad district through a telephone call.
In the last few days, Telangana police claimed that Saradakka was critical as she was suffering from Covid-19.
“We came to know about her death from the family members of the late Haribushan,” Mahabubabad superintendent of police N Koti Reddy told TOI.
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Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong are detaining Maoist activists ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centenary celebrations on July 1, Taiwanese media reported.
Police in Shandong s Jining city are running a nationwide operation targeting leftwingers in a bid to maintain stability ahead of the politically sensitive anniversary, Taiwan s Central News Agency (CNA) quoted sources as saying.
The operation, which began on May 12, has largely been carried out in secret, with no information given to detainees families after going incommunicado.
Among them is Maoist dissident Ma Houzhi, 77, who was released from a 10-year jail term in 2019.
A retired Qufu Normal University professor, Ma was jailed for setting up a Chinese Maoist Communist Party, defying a ban on the registration of new political parties under the CCP.