<p>Kishenji was from a poor Brahmin family which eked out a living on priesthood in near by temples.<br /><br />Madhuramma, the ailing mother of Kishenji, collapsed when she learnt that her son had been killed in an encounter far away in West Bengal. <br /><br />Madhuramma said she had not heard or seen much of him since 1980 when Kishenji climbed up the ladder in the revolutionary organisation after he finished his B Com from SSR College at Warangal.<br /><br /> “He used to bring home poets like Sri Sri, Kaloji Narayan Rao and Varavara Rao. I was very sympathetic towards the poor and deprived,” she said. <br /><br />The family in Pedapalli is worried about the whereabouts of Kishenji’s wife, Maisakka, alias Sujatakka of another Telangana district Mabubnagar. <br /><br />She joined him in the Maoist movement with him. Revolutionary poet P Varvara Rao, who was also upset at the news of Kishenji’s death, recalled the time when Kishenji joined the movement at a young age because he wanted to fight for the rights of the oppressed.<br /><br />Meanwhile, anticipating revenge attacks by Maoists in the wake of the killing of their top leader, the police in Andhra Pradesh have been put on high alert. <br />The police in Andhra Pradesh have stepped up security, especially on the Andhra-Orissa border. <br /><br />A police officer said politicians and others on the hit-list of the Maoists have been asked to be careful. <br /><br />Additional police forces have been mobilised on the north coastal Andhra Pradesh bordering Orissa. <br /><br />The elite anti-Maoist force, Greyhounds, has launched combing operations as a precautionary measure. Police were also checking vehicles in the tribal areas. <br /></p>
<p>Kishenji was from a poor Brahmin family which eked out a living on priesthood in near by temples.<br /><br />Madhuramma, the ailing mother of Kishenji, collapsed when she learnt that her son had been killed in an encounter far away in West Bengal. <br /><br />Madhuramma said she had not heard or seen much of him since 1980 when Kishenji climbed up the ladder in the revolutionary organisation after he finished his B Com from SSR College at Warangal.<br /><br /> “He used to bring home poets like Sri Sri, Kaloji Narayan Rao and Varavara Rao. I was very sympathetic towards the poor and deprived,” she said. <br /><br />The family in Pedapalli is worried about the whereabouts of Kishenji’s wife, Maisakka, alias Sujatakka of another Telangana district Mabubnagar. <br /><br />She joined him in the Maoist movement with him. Revolutionary poet P Varvara Rao, who was also upset at the news of Kishenji’s death, recalled the time when Kishenji joined the movement at a young age because he wanted to fight for the rights of the oppressed.<br /><br />Meanwhile, anticipating revenge attacks by Maoists in the wake of the killing of their top leader, the police in Andhra Pradesh have been put on high alert. <br />The police in Andhra Pradesh have stepped up security, especially on the Andhra-Orissa border. <br /><br />A police officer said politicians and others on the hit-list of the Maoists have been asked to be careful. <br /><br />Additional police forces have been mobilised on the north coastal Andhra Pradesh bordering Orissa. <br /><br />The elite anti-Maoist force, Greyhounds, has launched combing operations as a precautionary measure. Police were also checking vehicles in the tribal areas. <br /></p>