“What you are seeing is the pincer movement closing in on the surviving top leadership,” Ajai Sahni, a counter-terrorism expert, said. “This is the end game for the Maoists – and as far as the movement is concerned, it can be declared a failure.”

Indian forces kill leader of Maoist insurgency in sweeping crackdown on rebels - Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju is the highest-ranking Maoist leader to be killed in nearly 30 years

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