Dr.Vijay Kumar Shukla, also known as Munna Shukla, is a former

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(MLA) from

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. He has been elected on three occasions to the

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. He served a jail term for murder. Later He was Acquitted & again convicted in Brij Behari Prasad murder case in 2024 by Supreme Court.

Family and education

He is the brother of Chhotan Shukla, a notorious gang member who was assassinated in 1994, allegedly by the henchmen of Brij Bihari Prasad, a minister belonging to OBC Bania caste, who was a strongman from

Lalu Prasad Yadav Lalu Prasad (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 with a brief interruption in 1995 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founder and president o ...

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: National People's Party) is an Indian political party, mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has traditionally been Other ...

. His another brother Bhutkun Shukla who was responsible for killing G. Krishnaiah, the

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(DM) of Gopalganj during Chhotan's funeral procession and is now also dead. His wife, Annu Shukla, is an MLA from his former seat.

Political career

Shukla was first elected a MLA from the Lalganj constituency in the 2000 as Independent Candidate. Again won in February 2005 Bihar elections as a

Lok Janshakti Party The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP, ) was a state political party mainly based in the state of Bihar, India. The party was formed in 2000 when Ram Vilas Paswan split from Janata Dal. The party had a considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. ...

candidate. In the October elections of that year he won again after switching to be a

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candidate. Shukla later stood as an JD(U) candidate for the

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constituency of Vaishali. There he lost to the national vice-president of the

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (6 June 1946 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian socialist politician. In the Lok Sabha, he represented the Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency, Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Ras ...

. He was debarred from election as he was convicted in the Brij Behari Prasad murder case along with Surajbhan Singh. But in 2014 he was Acquitted by highcourt along with other's.In 2024 he again convicted in Brij Behari Prasad Murder Case by Supreme Court along with Mantu Tiwari. In

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he was defeated by

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candidate.

Crime

The criminal careers of Shukla and of

Anand Mohan Singh Anand Mohan Singh (born 28 January 1954) is a politician and founder of the now-defunct Bihar People's Party (BPP). He served life imprisonment for instigating killing of Gopalganj district magistrate, G. Krishnaiah in 1994. In April 2023, Go ...

, both of which were intertwined with politics, ran in parallel for many years and were of equal note. ''

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'' said in 2007 that The two overlapped completely in 1994 at the time of the

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of a

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near to

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during the funeral cortege of Chhotan Shukla. In 2007 they were sentenced to death for their involvement in the murder but Shukla's sentence was later overturned on appeal, when it was determined that he was present but uninvolved, and Singh's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. While in jail for that offence in 2012, Shukla was studied for and was awarded a PhD by

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, (abbreviated as BRABU) also known as B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University, is a state university located in Muzaffarpur. Established in 1960, the university has 37 constituent colleges and offers a range of ...

References

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