In the course of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, the REC campus grew to become a hub of radical pupil politics, the place revolutionary concepts thrived alongside tutorial brilliance. College students, hostel workers, and even school have been drawn right into a wave of left-wing activism that might finally give rise to a number of the most distinguished figures within the Folks's Battle Group (PWG) and later, the Communist Occasion of India (Maoist).
TOI additional reported citing Telangana's Particular Intelligence Department, that many high Maoist leaders — together with Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraj, Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, and Sadanala Ramakrishna — have been all merchandise of REC Warangal's charged ambiance.
From college students' rebellion to underground revolution
The roots of radicalism at REC might be traced to the early Seventies, following the killing of George Reddy, a charismatic Leftist chief at Osmania College. His loss of life ignited widespread protests, resulting in the formation of the Radical College students Union (RSU) in 1974. The motion shortly unfold to Warangal, the place college students started mobilising for revolutionary change.
By 1978, Warangal had grow to be the ideological epicentre of the scholar motion. On the RSU's second state convention that 12 months, chemical engineering pupil Azad was elected president of its Andhra unit — a place he held thrice earlier than becoming a member of the underground armed battle.
Police officers recalled to the information outlet that the state of affairs grew so intense {that a} police outpost needed to be established contained in the REC campus. Revolutionary leaders like Kondapalli Seetharamaiah and Ok.G. Satyamurthy, founders of the Folks's Battle Group, have been recognized to go to the faculty to work together with college students.
Legacy & decline
From REC's lecture rooms emerged a number of the motion's key ideologues. Azad grew to become the CPI (Maoist)'s chief spokesperson and mental anchor till his loss of life in 2010, whereas Basavaraj rose to grow to be basic secretary in 2018, succeeding Ganapathy. His loss of life in Could 2025, throughout intensified anti-Maoist operations, marked the symbolic finish of an period that started within the hostels and lecture halls of Warangal.
The merger that redefined the insurgency
The Maoist motion reached a turning level on September 21, 2004, when the Folks's Battle Group merged with the Maoist Communist Centre of India to type the Communist Occasion of India (Maoist).
This unification of Naxalbari's fragmented offshoots consolidated a long time of rebel exercise below one banner, with the Folks's Liberation Guerrilla Military (PLGA) as its armed wing.
What started as a student-driven ideological motion within the Seventies would go on to form India's longest-running insurgency — one whose roots might be traced again to the unconventional corridors of REC Warangal.
