In a significant blow to the CPI (Maoist) insurgency, high-ranking commander Badse Sukka alias Deva, along with 19 underground cadre, surrendered before the Telangana police, official sources said on Saturday. This surrender sounded the death knell for the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and the Telangana State committee of the CPI (Maoist) party. The surrendering group turned over the arms dumps' of the PLGA, including that associated with Hiduma and Badse, a press release from the police said. Another senior leader Kankanala Raji Reddy alias Venkatesh, also surrendered, it said. A contemporary of Madavi Hiduma, Badse is the second most important tribal leader in the CPI (Maoist). He joined the CPI ML PWG (People's war group) in 2003 and is a specialist in military strategy, explosives, manufacturing firearms, IEDs etc, the release said. Badse is a ruthless strategist and was instrumental in several high-profile attacks, including the 2013 Jhiram Ghati ambush in which