BENGALURU: Refuting speculations and media reports that maoists—unhappy with her role in bringing their cadre members to the mainstream—could be behind journalist Gauri Lankesh 's murder, Sirimane Nagaraj , one of the rehabilitated maoist says the movement is not run like the mafia. "The maoist movement is based on ideology and not run like a mafia. "We didn't believe in the armed struggle and tried impressing upon the party (CPI-Maoist) that the use of arms is eroding them of mass support. We quit in 2006 when even the Central Committee headed by Ganapathy himself did not consider our recommendations and remained underground. "The party was well aware about who was behind the exodus as we had even exchanged letters after our exit.

Source: Times of India September 07, 2017 14:23 UTC