Amitabh Bagchi (born 1958) alias Anil alias Sumit da is an Indian

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ideologue and senior

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member of

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Career

Bagchi hailed from Shivdas Bhaduri Street,

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area of

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. His father's name is Ranjit Kumar Bagchi. He was a postgraduate student of

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. Bagchi was active in undivided

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since the early 1990s in land movement in

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and

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belt. He led the

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movement in Bihar and is one of the founders of the erstwhile Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Party Unity. Bagchi became the secretary of the Central Military Commission and Politburo member of

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. He has close relation with Kishanji at the time of Lalgarh movement in West Bengal. He was in charge of Eastern Regional Committee of the party, known there as Alokji and asked local leaders to tie up with Assamese tribal like

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, Rabhas and

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. Jharkhand Police arrested Bagchi and Tauhid Mulla alias Kartik, West Bengal State Committee member from the Hatia Patna Intercity Express at

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on 19 August 2009. On 23 August 2010, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a fast-track court. Bagchi is detained at present Birsa Munda Central Jail of Ranchi. After eight years in prison, his sentence was suspended. As part of

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case he was granted bail on 29th January 2024, but on 19th July this decision was overturned. On 27th August 2024, he went on hunger strike in Hyderabad Central Jail.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagchi, Amitabh 1958 births Living people Anti-revisionists Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians Indian guerrillas Indian Marxists Maoist theorists Naxalites People from Kolkata Jadavpur University alumni Prisoners and detainees of India