Narmada Akka is a member of the Politburo of the party.
10 Facts About Narmada Akka
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Narmada Akka was able to fluently communicate in seven languages, including English.
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Narmada Akka's father was a supporter of the communist ideology, and his words so touched her that she made her mind to join the radical leftists.
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Narmada Akka was active as the Divisional Secretary of South Gadchiroli division of CPI.
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Narmada Akka was the second female comrade to have been selected as a member of the Central Committee of the radical leftist organisation, after Anuradha Ghandy.
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Narmada Akka was acting as the chief of the Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangathan's unit of Dandakaranya region, which is among the top-most "women's organizations" in India when it comes to numbers of registered members, and Arundhati Roy says that it has 90,000 members.
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Narmada Akka had as much as 53 police cases registered against her name in Maharashtra.
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Narmada Akka was reported to have been gunned-down during a fierce hour-long exchange of fire between the Maoists and State's police forces on 4 December 2012, near Hiker village, bordering Abujmarh of Chhattisgarh, in south Gadchiroli.
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Narmada Akka is reported to have been 57 years old when she died, by The Hindu, but Hindustan Times reports that she was 46.
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And, Rahul Pandita has written that Narmada Akka's age was 48, when he and Vanessa interviewed her.