Milind Baburao Teltumbde (died 13 November 2021) alias Jeeva or Deepak was a Maoist insurgent leader and Central Committee member of

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. He is the younger brother of Dalit activist and scholar

Anand Teltumbde Anand Teltumbde (born 15 July 1950) is an Indian scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management. He has written extensively about the caste system in India and has advocated for the ...

Career

Teltumbde was born in

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. In 1980s he completed ITI course and joined as a technician in Western Coalfields Limited in

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. Since then he was involved with Naxalite movement as an activist of

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. He was the member of Akhil Maharashtra Kamgar Union. Teltumbde became the secretary of Maharashtra unit of

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and was appointed Central Committee Member of this party. He was the head of the

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zone to create a safe red corridor for Maoist. According to BJP, he was the prime financier of the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence. Teltumbde was among the 26 Naxals killed in an encounter with

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in Mardintola forest area of Gadchiroli district on 13 November 2021. He was wanted in 63 criminal cases and carried 50 lakh reward on his head at the time of his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Teltumbde, Milind 20th-century births 2021 deaths Anti-revisionists Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians Year of birth missing Indian guerrillas Naxalite–Maoist insurgency People shot dead by law enforcement officers in India People from Yavatmal district