Kosa (Maoist)

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Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy
Born
Adilabad, Telangana, India
Died(2025-09-22)22 September 2025
Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, India
NationalityIndian
Other namesKosa, Gopanna, Sadhu
Organization Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Known forA cadre and Central Committee member of CPI (Maoist)
Criminal charge(s)Left-wing insurgency, Murder, Criminal conspiracy
Criminal statusKilled in encounter
SpouseRadha

Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy (died 22 September 2025), commonly known by his nom de guerre, Kosa (Hindi pronunciation: [koːsaː] ), was an Indian militant commander, who was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), a banned Maoist militant organisation in India. [1] [2]

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Background

In 1984, Kosa was married to Radha; soon after their marriage, Kosa decided to have a vasectomy, as the couple consciously concluded that "it was very difficult to have children and fight a guerrilla warfare." [3] Kosa told media that "Maoist cadres did not force their women to undergo sterilisation operation but they themselves opt for tubectomy." [3]

Guerrilla life

In an interview with the media, one of the officials of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has described Kosa as "very good with arms and ammunition and a master at guerrilla warfare. [4]

He hailed from Gopalraopally village, now in Rajanna Sircilla district. [5] Kosa was a former secretary of Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee and a former "military commander" of CPI (Maoist), and was appointed by the Central Regional Bureau of the political party to "fill the void" left after Kishenji's killing in the ongoing Maoist movement in the region. [4] After Kosa was promoted to the Central Committee of the party, Ramanna replaced him as the head of its Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee. [6]

In 2009, NDTV stated that Kosa was "one of the top five Maoist leaders in India. [7]

Death

Kosa and another Maoist leader, Katta Ramchandra Reddy (alias Vikalp, Raju, Vasu), were killed in an encounter on 22 September 2025 with the security force in Narayanpur district. [8] [5] [9]

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References

  1. ↑ LIST OF ORGANISATIONS DECLARED AS TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS UNDER THE UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1967 Archived 28 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine — Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 6 June 2013
  2. ↑ Deepak Kapoor (2009). South Asia Defence And Strategic Year Book. Pentagon Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN   978-81-8274-399-1.
  3. 1 2 "Maoist couples prefer no child norm". One India . Abujhmarh, Chhattisgarh: Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 11 April 2006. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 Singh, Vijaita (19 November 2012). "Maoists appoint Kishenji 'replacement' for revival". The Indian Express . New Delhi: Indian Express Group . Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  5. 1 2 "CPI (Maoist) suffers a major jolt coinciding with 21st anniversary of its formation". The Hindu. 22 September 2025. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Singh, Vijaita (18 April 2013). "In a first, UAV used to record gunfight with Naxals in C'garh". The Indian Express. New Delhi: Indian Express Group. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Sen, Sudhi Ranjan (2009). "Govt sending mixed signals: Naxals". Bastar, Chhattisgarh: NDTV.
  8. ↑ Noronha, Rahul (23 September 2025). "How Maoist leadership suffered yet another body blow in Chhattisgarh". India Today. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  9. ↑ Tripathi, Rahul (24 September 2025). "Two Maoists killed had Rs 3.6 cr bounty". The Economic Times. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 24 September 2025.
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