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Top Maoist Hidma killed in crippling blow to LWE
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|November 19, 2025
Madvi Hidma, 50, his wife Madakam Raje, 44, and four other Maoists were killed by the Andhra Pradesh police after a gunfight early on Tuesday, dealing a crippling blow to the Left Wing Extremist (LWE) movement in the country.
Hidma, CPI (Maoist) central committee member and commander of party's first battalion and the others were killed after the encounter at Maredumilli forests of Alluri Sitarama Raju district on Tuesday morning, state intelligence chief Mahesh Chandra Laddha announced.
“Along with Hidma, who is a central committee member of the Maoist party, his wife Madakam Raje who is Dandakaranya special zonal committee (DKSZC) member was also neutralised. The others were identified as divisional committee member Lakmal, and platoon party committee members Kamlu and Malla and Deve, who was Hidma’s personal guard.”
This story is from the November 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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