Naxal leader Basava Raju killed in encounter. Is this the end of the Maoist movement?

Basava Raju, aka Nambala Keshava Rao, the leader of the Maoist movement, was killed alongside 26 other Naxals by security forces in Chhattisgarh. Raju, the general secretary of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), was killed in the dense forests of Abhujmad. But who was he? And what does his death mean for the future of the movement?

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