STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Senior Maoist leader Tingraj Orang (49) surrendered before Hiren Ch. Nath, Additional Director General of Police, Special Branch, Assam, on Tuesday.
Orang is the convener of the Assam State Organizing Committee (ASOC) of CPI (Communist Party of India-Maoist), formed in 2017 in a meeting of the Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) held along the Jharkhand-Orissa border. He was also the general secretary of Barak and Bramhaputra Valley Zonal Committees of CPI (Maoist) in Assam. He started his association with Left as a member of Students' Federation of India (SFI) and CPM from 1989-99. He was president of Adivasi Chah Janagoshti Suraksha Committee. He formally joined the CPI (Maoist) in 2006 and met Kishan Da (ERB Chief). In 2011, he was arrested in Rourkella, Orissa along with two CPI Maoist cadres of Assam- Aditya Bora and Ajoy Sabor. Tingraj Orang is a resident of Naharani Jaipur, Samuktola village of Dibrugarh district.
He is the only senior Maoist leader expanding bases of CPI (Maoist) in Barak and Brahmaputra Valley of Assam. His surrender will be a huge setback for CPI (Maoist) movement in Assam, and the ASOC will now become leaderless. Though no arms and ammunitions, but his surrender will be moral setback for Maoist elements in the State.
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