Overview
- After surfacing in Telangana custody last month, Devuji asked Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to press Delhi to revoke the UAPA ban and said Reddy had discussed the issue with Home Minister Amit Shah.
- He said the CPI (Maoist) would dissolve its People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army and operate within the Constitution if legal recognition begins, while ruling out contesting elections.
- He demanded the release of jailed cadres and sympathisers by recognising them as political prisoners, explicitly including those tagged as 'urban naxals' in the Bhima Koregaon cases.
- He disputed official accounts of a surrender, asserting he and colleagues were arrested before any formal process and that they left their weapons in the forests.
- He alleged many Operation KAGAR encounters were 'fake', called for the campaign to stop and for talks to start, and acknowledged the armed struggle has largely wound down.