As the Maoist interlocutors and civil liberty activists G Haragopal and R Someswara Rao started their preliminary discussions with Orissa Home Secretary and other senior officials here this morning for released of abducted Malkangiri collector and junior engineer,Maoists have made it clear that the talks can only be successful only when jailed rebels Ganti Prasadam and Sriramulu Srinivas are released to participate in discussions. Haragopal (60) and Rao (75),arrived here at 10 am on Sunday from Hyderabad and immediately went to State Guest House to discuss with Home Secretary UN Behera. But results of the meeting may not be as successful till two jailed rebels take part in the discussions. The two interlocutors have also expressed their inability to travel to deep forests of Malkangiri for speaking to rebels. But Dandapani Mohanty,whose organization Daman Pratirodh Manch was banned by Orissa in June 2006 for serving as front organisation of CPI(Maoist) said that irrespective of the discussion by Haragopal and Someswar,Maoists wanted Prasadam,Srinivas and he would be the pointsmen for the discussion to release collector Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi. Prasadam and Srinivas have to be released unconditionally and I would join them in the Malkangiri forests for final discussion, he said. Supporting Mohanty,pro-Maoist writer and former interlocutor in Maoist-government talks,Varavara Rao said Maoists would not budge from their basic minimum demands. I have made the Maoists stand clear to Orissa industries secretary T Ramachandru, he said. Senior government officials said the back-channels were working furiously to get the rebels out of prisions by Monday. Ganti Prasadam,55,a close aide of top Maoist Ramakrishna,was the State president of Martyrs Friends and Relatives Committee. He was arrested by the Koraput police from Visakhapatnam on November 21 last year soon after the Orissa cops arrested Padma,Ramakrishnas wife. Lodged in Ongole sub-jail of Andhra Pradesh,he was released from the prison last night following a production and transfer (PT) warrant from a judicial magistrate in Koraput. Police officials said Prasadams bail petition would be moved in the district and sessions court in Jeypore town of Koraput. Srinivas,41,was the chief of Revolutionary Writers Association and a member of Andhra-Orissa Boarder Special Zone Committee when he was arrested in Malkangiri district in July 2007. He was responsible for the abortive bid on the life of former AP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in 2003 at Tirupati. Now lodged in Malkangiri jail,his lawyer filed a bail application in the court district fast track additional sessions judge this afternoon over a case dating back to July 2007. The result of the bail applications would be known only on Monday. Apart from Prasadam and Srinivas,Maoists have demanded the release of the following people- 1. Padma alias Sirisha alias Nirmala(She is top Maoist Ramakrisnas wife and is in Koraput jail since November 2010). Padma was arrested on charges that she was trying to meet her son,Prithvi(Maoist cadre) and conspiring to blow up mobile towers and a bridge. 2. Buduni Munda alias Sobha(She is top Maoist Kishenjis wife and is in Rourkela jail since October 2006), 3. Gananath Patra,leader of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh in Narayanpatna block Gananath Patra(in Koraput jail since January 2010), 4. Central Military Commission chief of CPI(Maoist) and central committee member Motilal Soren alias Ashutosh(In Bhubaneswar jail since March 2009). 5. Ishwari,cousin sister of Padma. She was supposed to join as the central regional commander of Narayanpatna Dalam.(In Koraput jail since Nov 2010) 6. Tapan Mishra(42),a civil rights activist in Narayanpatna and leader of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh. He was arrested on November 29,2009 when he was about to board his train to Narayanpatna from Parvatipuram railway station.(In Koraput jail since Nov 2009). Meanwhile,Malkangiri continued to be cut-off from Orissa for third day today as Maoists felled trees on Govindapalli ghati that connects the district to the rest of Orissa thus affecting all vehicular movements. The Maoist offensive came hours after the state government suspended all anti-rebel operations,a pre-conditions laid down by the Maoists for the release of the collector and engineer. Local people who want to go to Koraput and further are taking detours through Sukma in Chhatisgarh or via Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh. Maoist posters were found in the area urged people to hold rallies for the release of tribals,who were arrested on charges of being Maoists. The Maoists have also called Orissa bandh on Monday.
