NEW DELHI: The mass organisations with which leading activists arrested by Pune police in the Bhima-Koregaon case are associated have repeatedly figured in the interrogation reports of top CPI(Maoist) politburo and central committee members arrested since 2005.As many as 11 leaders of the two apex decision-making bodies of CPI (Maoist) had allegedly named Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), of which Varavara Rao is the national president, and Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL), to which Sudha Bharadwaj (under house arrest) and Surendra Gadling, arrested earlier in June, are linked, as prominent front organisations of the banned outfit.Interrogation of six CPI (Maoist) politburo members — Kobad Ghandy, Amit Bagchi, Pramod Mishra, Misir Besra, Narayan Sanyal and Baccha Prasad Singh — and five central committee members — Varanasi Subramanyam, Aklanta Rabha, Sridhar Srinivasan, Vijay Kumar Arya and Motilal Soren — arrested between 2005 and 2017, threw up a common disclosure: that RDF is an all-India mass organisation of CPI (Maoist) that has Maoist liberation movement and Naxalbari struggle built into its programmes, MHA sources alleged.They claimed Ghandy, Sanyal (now dead), Singh, Subramanyam and Rabha had identified jailed Naxal sympathiser and Delhi University professor G N Saibaba as RDF’s most prominent leader.According to Ghandy — who was in charge of the sub-committee on mass organisations (SUCOMO), — the mass outfits were identified by different code names, from A1 to A6, in CPI(Maoist) documents.A1 stands for All Indian League for Revolutionary Culture; A2 for All India Revolutionary Students Federation; A3 for RDF; A4 for People’s Democratic Front of India; A5 for IAPL, which coordinates with the Committee of Protection of Democratic Rights (associated with Shoma Sen, arrested in June 2018), People’s Union for Democratic Rights associated with Gautam Navlakha, and Committee for Release of Political Prisoners for which Rona Wilson worked as a PR pointsperson; and A6 for Anti-Displacement Front, to which Mahesh Raut, arrested in June, is linked.Baccha Singh allegedly said CPI(Maoist) coordinated and directed activities of mass organisations through a secret ‘fraction’ committee, which comprised CPI(Maoist) cadres within the mass outfit. The committee would coordinate with SUCOMO. Singh had allegedly named Saibaba as main fraction committee member.