Key Maoist leader Anant, 10 others surrender in Maharashtra’s Gondia

Key Maoist leader Vikas Nagpure alias Navjyot alias Anant surrendered before the police in Maharashtra’s Gondia district on Friday along with 10 others.

Anant was the spokesperson of the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh special zonal committee of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). Days earlier, he had issued a press release urging the chief ministers of the three states to halt anti-insurgency operations, and setting January 1, as the deadline by when the Maoists would surrender, The Indian Express reported.

Ankit Goyal, the deputy inspector general of police (Gadchiroli range), camp Nagpur, told the newspaper that multiple factors had led to Anant’s surrender.

“We tried to convince him, and the operations were also going on, and probably he felt that this was the right time to surrender,” Goyal said.

महाराष्ट्र-मध्यप्रदेश-छत्तीसगढ (एम. एम. सी.) झोन मधील स्पेशल झोनल कमेटी मेंबर विकास नागपुरे उर्फ नवज्योत यांचेसह एकूण ११ माओवाद्यांनी गोंदिया जिल्हा पोलीस समक्ष केले आत्मसमर्पण pic.twitter.com/ztWNnXm9mg— गोंदिया पोलीस - Gondia Police (@Gondiapolice) November 29, 2025

Anant was among the key Maoist leaders in the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh zone, with only one Central Committee member – Ramdher – above him in the CPI (Maoist) hierarchy, the official said, according to The Indian Express.

“Ramdher’s group is still there in the northern part of the region, but we are sure that he will surrender soon,”...

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