Hyderabad, June 1 :    Hyderabad, June 1:  The proposed negotiations between the People's War Group in Andhra Pradesh and the state government are locked in the take off stages with neither the government nor the extremists making the initial peace moves for establishing trust and creating an atmosphere conducive for the talks to begin. The state government has asked the PWG to surrender arms as precondition for the talks, while the PWG has asked the government to partially left the ban on the group, stop fake encounters and raids on villages and temporarily halt combing operations. But neither side is willing to comply. Meanwhile, the revolutionary poet P. Varavara Rao and the folk singer, Gaddar from the Jana Natya Mandali were chosen by the PWG to work out the modalities of the dialogue with the state government. 'To hold talks with government is a political decision and, hence, we would appreciate if the negotiations were conducted by politicians without the involvement of government officials and policemen,' said Varavara Rao. He also took objection to the PWG's reference as an extremist faction and said it was a political party, the CPI (ML) and not just a faction. Rao said he was prepared to risk his life if his efforts brought peace to rural Andhra Pradesh, which was torn by extremist violence and state repression for the last three decades.