Naxalites, People&#8217;s Guerrilla Army (PGA), People's War (PW), The Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (People's War)  CPI-ML (PW)

Extortion was the main source of PWG funds. An amount of more than Rs 10 crores (~ $2.2 million) was collected from contractors, traders, businessmen, professionals like doctors, lawyers, accountants and even government officials, according to informed so

The People's War Group (PWG) was a Maoist terrorist organization that operated in India for over two decades. PWG, which was based in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, and Bihar, aimed to create a communist state encompassing these three areas. Following Mao Tse Tung's model of an organized peasant insurgency, PWG waged a terrorist offensive throughout the rural state of Andhra Pradesh, as well as Orissa and Bihar. According to local Indian police, PWG's violent insurgency killed an average of 60 civilians, 60 PWG rebels, and a dozen police officers each year during their active period. <P><br />The People's War Group, or, more specifically, the Andhra Pradesh branch of the PWG, was formed in 1980 by Kondapally Sitaramah. When PWG was initially founded, the group pointed to land reform as the primary motivation for their insurgency. Governed by their land reform goals and Maoist beliefs, PWG aimed to control rural areas physically and then eventually establish the areas as permanent "liberated zones." Theoretically, these liberated zones would enact a liberal land policy. The People's War Group has attempted to differentiate between its political wing and armed wing, even assigning a separate name for its armed wing, People's Guerrilla Army (PGA). The PGA was apparently formed in December 2000. <P><br />In September 2004, the PWG merged with the Maoist Communist Center (another left-wing extremist group) to form the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist).  Despite some ideological disputes between the two organizations, the CPI-Maoist effectively combined the strict Maoist philosophy of MCC, with the more blended Marxist-Maoist viewpoint of PWG.  In total, the CPI-Maoist ideology is somewhat more similar to MCC ideology, but also strongly resembles the philosophy of PWG.  <br />