Pramod Mishra is a

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politician and senior politburo member of

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Career

Mishra is from a village in

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. He was a prominent leader of the erstwhile Naxalite group Maoist Communist Centre of India. Mishra organized a large scale land movement in

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after the death of Kanai Chatterjee. After the formation of

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in 2004, he became the Central Committee member of the Party. Mishra was known as ''Bibiji'', ''Agni'' and ''Ban Bihari'' inside the party. According to the Bihar police he was wanted in two dozen cases of murder, arson and looting in Bihar,

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and Chhattisgarh. In 9th Party Congress held in 2007, he was selected as politburo member and made in-charge of

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operations. Mishra was busy of spreading the movement to the North India, including

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as well as Jammu and Kashmir. His name figured in the

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Department's Country Reports on Terrorism, 2006. On 11 May 2008, a team of Special Task Force of Bihar Police arrested him from a rented house at Barmasia. Mishra was released in August, 2017 due to lack of evidences and settled in village under Kasma police station as an

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Doctor. After two month from his release he was missing till date.

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Living people Anti-revisionists Communist Party of India (Maoist) politicians Indian guerrillas Indian Marxists Naxalite–Maoist insurgency People from Bihar People from Aurangabad district, Bihar Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bihar-politician-stub