Pramod Mishra is a

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politician and senior politburo member of

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Career

Mishra is from a village in

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. He was a prominent leader of the erstwhile Naxalite group Maoist Communist Centre of India. Mishra organized a large scale land movement in

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after the death of Kanai Chatterjee. After the formation of

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in 2004, he became the Central Committee member of the Party. Mishra was known as ''Bibiji'', ''Agni'' and ''Ban Bihari'' inside the party. According to the

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he was wanted in two dozen cases of murder, arson and looting in Bihar,

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and

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. In 9th Party Congress held in 2007, he was selected as politburo member and made in-charge of

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operations. Mishra was busy of spreading the movement to the North India, including

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as well as

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. His name figured in the

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Department's Country Reports on Terrorism, 2006. On 11 May 2008, a team of Special Task Force of Bihar Police arrested him from a rented house at Barmasia. Mishra was released in August, 2017 due to lack of evidences and settled in village under Kasma police station as an

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Doctor. After two month from his release he was missing till date.

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Living people Anti-revisionists Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians Indian guerrillas Indian Marxists Naxalites People from Bihar People from Aurangabad district, Bihar Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bihar-politician-stub