AS MAOISTS EMPTY OUT, FEW LEFT TO TAKE REDS' REINS

With six months remaining in the Union government's self-imposed deadline to eliminate Left Wing Extremism the ranks of the CPI (Maoist) have thinned to only three politburo members and 9 central committee members, officials familiar with the matter said. Of the three politburo members, only two are believed to be active.

- Prawesh Lama

The third, Mupalla Lakshman Rao, alias Ganapathy, one of the most wanted men in the country, is no longer active, they