Vijay Kumar Shukla, also known as Munna Shukla, is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Bihar. He has been elected on three occasions to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He served a jail term for murder. He was left out of jail on bail later.

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 Brij Behari Prasad, also spelled Brij Bihari Prasad (died 13 June 1998) was an Indian politician. A member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) (then Janata Dal), Prasad served as Minister for Science and Technology in the Government of Bihar. He ...

, a minister belonging to OBC Bania caste, who was a strongman from Lalu Prasad Yadav's

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: ''National People's Party'') is an Indian political party, based in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has tradit ...

. His another brother Bhutkun Shukla who was responsible for killing

G. Krishnaiah G. Krishnaiah (8 February 1957 – 5 December 1994) was an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1985 batch who was killed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar by the mob led by a few politicians. At the time of death in 1994, he was 37 years o ...

, the District Magistrate (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 candidate. In the October elections of that year he won again after switching to be a Janata Dal (United) candidate. Shukla later stood as an JD(U) candidate for the Lok Sabha constituency of Vaishali. There he lost to the national vice-president of the

, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh. He was debarred from election as he was convicted in the

Brij Behari Prasad Brij Behari Prasad, also spelled Brij Bihari Prasad (died 13 June 1998) was an Indian politician. A member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) (then Janata Dal), Prasad served as Minister for Science and Technology in the Government of Bihar. He ...

murder case along with Surajbhan Singh.

Crime

The criminal careers of Shukla and of Anand Mohan Singh, both of which were intertwined with politics, ran in parallel for many years and were of equal note. '' Tehelka'' said in 2007 that The two overlapped completely in 1994 at the time of the

lynching Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people. It can also be an ex ...

of a Dalit district magistrate near to Muzaffarpur 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.

References

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