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 Naxalite movement in Bihar and is one of the founders of the erstwhile

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. 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

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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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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.

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