Senior Maoist leader Kudumula Venkata Rao, alias Ravi, died of jaundice here today.
Ravi (40), the chief of central regional committee of the banned CPI (Maoists), carried a reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head.
Superintendent of police (Visakhapatnam rural) Koya Praveen said Ravi's associates took him to a private hospital here, where he was he was declared brought dead.
He joined the Naxals when he was a college student at Chintapalle and operated mostly in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
