Kosa (Maoist)

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Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy
Born
Adilabad, Telangana, 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, [1] commonly known by his nom de guerre, Kosa (Hindi pronunciation: [koːsaː] ), was an Indian politician who was a Central Committee [1] member of the Community Party of India, a banned [2] Maoist insurgent [3] communist party in India.

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Family

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." [4] Kosa has told media that "Maoist cadres did not force their women to undergo sterilisation operation but they themselves opt for tubectomy." [4]

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. [5]

He is a former secretary of Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee and a former "military commander" of CPI (Maoist), and has been appointed by the Central Regional Bureau of the political party to "fill the void" left after Kishenji's elimination in the ongoing Maoist movement in the region. [5] 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 claimed that Kosa was "one of the top five Maoist leaders in India. [7] Kosa has stated that the Maoists "only pick up arms in self-defence." [7]

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