STRATFOR: AP Timeline Dec 2006
Animesh Roul
Dec 29: The Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) has blocked the Karimnagar Highway to demand uninterrupted free power supply to the farm sector. The Maha Rasta Roko covered a distance of 250 km all along the TRS's stronghold.
Dec 29: Revenue Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao indicated after the Cabinet meeting in Hyderbad that Andhra Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Act (APCOCA) will be reviewed soon.
Dec 28: Telegu Desam party and left parties have demonstrated and organized several blockades demanding nine hour power supply (presently 7 hours of power supply) to the agricultural sector. Protests turned violent at Sangareddy in Medak district, leaving several CPM activists and police personnel injured. Elsewhere in the state, protestors mainly farmers laid siege to the offices of the power utilities. They also squatted on the roads blocking the state and national highways disrupting vehicular traffic.
Dec 28: The ‘eastern division commander’ of the People’s Guerrilla Army of the banned Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Varkapur Chandramouli alias Devanna and his wife Jyothakka were killed during a shootout with Police in the forests of Visakhapatnam district. Chandramouli was sixth in the hierarchy of the CPI-Maoist and carried a reward of INR One Million on his head.
Dec 12: Cyberabad city police have unearthed a huge arms cache belonging to Maoists in a forest area at Chittapur village in Ibrahimpatnam. Four quintals of gelatine sticks, six loaded claymore mines, eight empty claymore mines, two hand grenades, 100 electrical detonators and wires, 33 live SLR rounds and 19 live .303 rifle rounds were found in drums at three places in the forest.
Dec 10: Four suspected Inter-Services Intelligence agents have been arrested by the police near L R Pally village of Nellore district. Superintendent of Police Laxmi Reddy said to media later that the suspects were picked up following information that bombs and explosives were being produced and transported from a house in the district.
Security was stepped up at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and other airports in Andhra Pradesh following an Intelligence Bureau warning that terrorists might hijack aircraft to demand the release of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death in the Parliament attack case.
Dec 2: The Anantapur district police recovered a large number of rockets, landmines and claymore mines by unearthing four arm dumps of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist). Superintendent of Police, M.S. Ravindra, said the dumps were unearthed during the combing operations by police. The recovery comprised 14 rockets, 7 rocket launcher stands, 71 hand grenades, 26 considered to be the largest dump unearthed in the district so far.