Ravi Sharma is an Indian

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politician and Central Committee member of the

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Education

Sharma hails from

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of Indian state of

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. He is a postgraduate in Agriculture and earlier worked as a scientist with the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University in

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. He was pursuing Ph.D from the

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Political career

Since 1999 Sharma and his wife B. Anuradha alias Rajitha led the Maoist movement in Bihar and

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. He was one of the head of party's military group and in charge of the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee of the party. He looked after recruitment cell as well as training of party cadre as a member of the Sub-Committee of Political Education, a Maoist ideological wing. Sharma's wife Anuradha, came from

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, left her job of Nationalised Bank in

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in 1988 and joined

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. She went to Bihar in 2007 and became head of ''Nari Mukti Sangha'', the women's wing of the party. According to the police the couple were responsible for Naxal violence in Bihar and Jharkhand. Sharma is known inside the party as Arjun alias Mahesh alias Ashok. On 10 October 2009, Sharma along with his wife were arrested under

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police station from

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. The Couple were sent to Jai Prakash Narayan Central Jail near

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Ravi Living people Anti-revisionists Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians Indian guerrillas Indian Marxists Naxalites People from Andhra Pradesh Year of birth missing (living people) People from Mahbubnagar district