Zee Media Bureau
Raipur: The National Investigation Agency is reported to have identified two key Naxal commanders who carried out the attack on the state Congress leadership in Bastar last year.
As per a report in a leading English daily, the NIA has identified the CPI(Maoist) duo as Surender, chief of the Darbha divisional committee, and Jailal, who heads the second regional command company.
The breakthrough in the probe came eight months after the ghastly attack which nearly wiped out the entire state leadership of the Congress party in Chhattisgarh.
Among the 27 killed in the May 25, 2013 attack on the Congress convoy included former state minister Mahender Karma and Chhattisgarh Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel. Veteran Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla had later succumbed to his injuries in a hospital.
The NIA identified the duo after interrogating top Naxal leader GVK Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi, who recently surrendered before the Andhra Police.
As per Usendi, Surender and Jailal led a team of between 200-250 Maoists who carried out the attack.
