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title="Marxism–Leninism–Maoism">Marxism–Leninism–Maoism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Naxalite" class="mw-redirect" title="Naxalite">Naxalism</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Far-left_politics" title="Far-left politics">Far-left</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">500–600 (as of 2025)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opponents</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Republic of India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles and wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Naxalite-Maoist_insurgency" class="mw-redirect" title="Naxalite-Maoist insurgency">Naxalite-Maoist insurgency</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>People's Liberation Guerrilla Army</b> (<b>PLGA</b>) is the armed wing of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)" title="Communist Party of India (Maoist)">Communist Party of India (Maoist)</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)#Legal_status" title="Communist Party of India (Maoist)">banned</a> political organisation in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which aims to overthrow the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Indian Government</a> through protracted <a href="/wiki/People%27s_war" title="People's war">people's war</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Liberation_Guerrilla_Army_(India)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The People's Liberation Guerrilla Army was founded on 2 December 2000<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and known as the People's Guerrilla Army (PGA) by the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)_People%27s_War" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War">Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War</a>, also known as the People's War Group.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The PLGA was founded on the first death anniversary of their three Central Committee members, who were killed in an encounter in <a href="/wiki/Koyyuru" title="Koyyuru">Koyyuru</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2004, when the People's War Group merged with the <a href="/wiki/Maoist_Communist_Centre_of_India" title="Maoist Communist Centre of India">Maoist Communist Centre of India</a> (MCCI) to form the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)" title="Communist Party of India (Maoist)">Communist Party of India (Maoist)</a>, their respective armed wings also merged.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, the People's Guerrilla Army (the military wing of the People's War Group) and the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (the military wing of MCCI) combined to form the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition">Composition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Liberation_Guerrilla_Army_(India)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The PLGA is controlled by the Central Military Commission of the CPI (Maoist).<sup id="cite_ref-guerrilla_warfare_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guerrilla_warfare-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The analyses in September 2013, based on <a href="/wiki/Maoist" class="mw-redirect" title="Maoist">Maoists</a>' intercepted communication, suggested that the estimated number of PLGA members had decreased (from 10,000−12,000)<sup id="cite_ref-T-September_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-T-September-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 8,000−9,000.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recently in March 2014, <a href="/wiki/Gautam_Navlakha" title="Gautam Navlakha">Gautam Navlakha</a> has claimed that the PLGA's strength did not decrease but has increased, however, the guerrilla zone has been geographically reduced. He writes that "the number of companies and platoons of PLGA increased from 8 <a href="/wiki/Company_(military_unit)" title="Company (military unit)">companies</a> and 13 <a href="/wiki/Platoon_(military_unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Platoon (military unit)">platoons</a> in 2008 to 12 companies and more than 25 platoons, plus a supply platoon in 2013."<sup id="cite_ref-Gautam_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gautam-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All the PLGA members are volunteers and they do not receive any wages.<sup id="cite_ref-Walking_with_the_Comrades_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walking_with_the_Comrades-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The count of <i>Jan</i> (People's) Militia is around 38,000 which is mostly composed of the tribal people who uses bows and arrows as their weapons and allegedly provide logistical support to the PLGA.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During her visit to the Maoist's guerrilla zones few years back, <a href="/wiki/Arundhati_Roy" title="Arundhati Roy">Arundhati Roy</a> noted that the PLGA was 45% female,<sup id="cite_ref-Walking_with_the_Comrades_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walking_with_the_Comrades-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the recent analyses suggests that now the female comrades compose 60% of the PLGA.<sup id="cite_ref-T-September_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-T-September-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Now, the women commanders heads 20 of the 27 divisions in the <a href="/wiki/Red_corridor" title="Red corridor">Red corridor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gautam_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gautam-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has a military intelligence wing, Central Instruction Team and the Central Action Team.<sup id="cite_ref-guerrilla_warfare_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guerrilla_warfare-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maoists manufactures 80% of their arms and looted others from the security forces.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kishenji" title="Kishenji">Kishenji</a> was one of the commanders-in-chief of the PLGA who oversaw several attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_attacks">Notable attacks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Liberation_Guerrilla_Army_(India)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notable attacks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 6 April 2010, an attack on <a href="/wiki/Central_Reserve_Police_Force" title="Central Reserve Police Force">Central Reserve Police Force</a> (CRPF) in their camp in <a href="/wiki/Dantewada_district" title="Dantewada district">Dantewada district</a>, Chhattisgarh <a href="/wiki/April_2010_Maoist_attack_in_Dantewada" title="April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada">killed 76 CRPF personnel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is considered to be the biggest attack by the armed wing of the Maoist. On 25 May 2013, the PLGA targeted the convoy of <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress</a> leaders in Chhattisgarh; <a href="/wiki/2013_Naxal_attack_in_Darbha_valley" title="2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley">twenty-seven people died</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Mahendra_Karma" title="Mahendra Karma">Mahendra Karma</a>, the founder of <a href="/wiki/Salwa_Judum" title="Salwa Judum">Salwa Judum</a>. Karma had been the main target.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 April 2021, <a href="/wiki/2021_Sukma-Bijapur_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Sukma-Bijapur attack">Chhattisgarh Naxal attack</a>, A group of an estimated 400 Maoists, armed with <a href="/wiki/Light_machine_gun" title="Light machine gun">LMGs</a>, had ambushed security forces deployed for a special operation, killing at least 22 personnel and injuring 30 others, besides decamping with over a dozen sophisticated arms.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Liberation_Guerrilla_Army_(India)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Green_Hunt" title="Operation Green Hunt">Operation Green Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army,_Nepal" title="People's Liberation Army, Nepal">People's Liberation Army, Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_of_Manipur" title="People's Liberation Army of Manipur">People's Liberation Army of Manipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Liberation Front (Sri Lanka)">People's Liberation Front (Sri Lanka)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_People%27s_Army" title="New 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