Pro-Left balladeer Gadar has urged the Andhra Pradesh government to resume talks with Naxalites and put an end to 'fake police encounters.'

"Your policy of eliminating Naxalite leadership will prove futile. Instead, you need to address socio-economic problems that have led to the Naxalite movement," Gadar, who was an emissary of the outlawed People's War in the failed talks with the government last year, said.

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In a letter to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, copies of which were released to the media, he said: "History has proved that annihilation of Naxalite leaders cannot suppress the movement."

Recalling the encounter killings of top Naxalite leaders -- N Adireddy, Santosh Reddy and Murali -- three years ago, Gadar said the government should have held talks with them instead of giving police the green signal to "eliminate them in cold blood."

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