Hyderabad, Dec. 29 :    Hyderabad, Dec. 29:  Within hours of the government announcing that an all-party meeting would be held on negotiations with the outlawed People's War Group, the Naxalites struck again. PWG guerrillas shot dead Congress legislator from Devarakonda D. Ragya Naik early this morning at his native village of Maddimadagu in Mahboobnagar district. The legislator's wife, Bharati Naik, was behind him when the extremists struck. Ragya Naik, 51, a tribal, was elected from the reserved constituency after defeating his nearest rival of the CPI. He is survived by five sons and a daughter. He was participating in a jatra at the Hanuman temple in his village when five activists of the Achampet guerrilla squad shot him at point blank range after snatching the gun from his bodyguard. Mahboobnagar additional superintendent of police B. Malla Reddy said the legislator had not informed the police of his visit. 'We were not informed of the tribal legislator's visit otherwise we could have given him some more gunmen as escort and, perhaps, prevented the sad incident,' Reddy said. Two days ago, Ragya Naik had complained to the Speaker of the Assembly about his security. 'My pleas to (the) government have fallen on deaf ears,' he had pleaded. Though Ragya Naik was entitled to four armed guards, the state government had provided him with only one gunman. Following a series of Naxalite strikes this year, the Telugu Desam government had taken a big step towards reconciliation by agreeing to hold talks with the PWG to instil confidence among villagers and industrialists. Ragya Naik is the second legislator to be killed by the PWG this year, the first being home minister A. Madhav Reddy, who was killed in a landmine blast near Bhongir.