Odisha: Maoist surrenders in Kandhamal district

BERHAMPUR: A woman Maoist of the Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) division of the CPI (Maoist) surrendered before SP (Kandhamal) at

Phulbani

on Sunday. She was identified as

Kanti Mallick

(22) alias Amit, a party member of Gangaranga village under Baliguda police station limits in Kandhamal district.



She joined the CPI (Maoist) in 2018 and is suspected to be involved in several

LWE

activities in Kandhamal district, said SP (Kandhamal) Veenit Agrawal.

Besides development works undertaken by the government in Kandhamal and appeal of chief minister Naveen Patnaik to Maoists to surrender, she was disillusioned with the behaviour of Maoist leaders from Andhra Pradesh and

Chhattisgarh

towards the local cadre.