06-27-2006, 12:14 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Maoists blow up former MLAâs home</b>
Visakhapatnam: Suspected Maoists blasted the house of former Congress legislator P. Balaraju from Chintapalli at G.K. Colony, 2 km away from GK Veedhi mandal of agency area, late on Saturday night, our correspondent reports.
The Maoists in 1993 had abducted Balaraju for a few days and released him unharmed. He was not present in the house when the Maoists attacked it. Police said five extremists wearing uniforms and more than 50 armed persons entered the tiled house and asked the ex-MLAâs elderly mother P. Lakshmamma to leave the house and blasted it between midnight and 12.30 am.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Visakhapatnam: Suspected Maoists blasted the house of former Congress legislator P. Balaraju from Chintapalli at G.K. Colony, 2 km away from GK Veedhi mandal of agency area, late on Saturday night, our correspondent reports.
The Maoists in 1993 had abducted Balaraju for a few days and released him unharmed. He was not present in the house when the Maoists attacked it. Police said five extremists wearing uniforms and more than 50 armed persons entered the tiled house and asked the ex-MLAâs elderly mother P. Lakshmamma to leave the house and blasted it between midnight and 12.30 am.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->