Sunil Kumar ( 11 January 1966 – 4 March 2007) was a member of the

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, representing the constituency of

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (, ) or Tatanagar is the largest and most populous city in Jharkhand and the first planned industrial city in India. It is a Notified Area Council and Municipal Corporation and also the headquarter of the East Singhbhum district. It ...

in the eastern state of

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

. He was General Secretary of the

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( lit. ''Jharkhand Liberation Front''; JMM) is a State political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by Binod Bihari Mahato. It has one seat in the 17th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of th ...

(JMM) political party. He was assassinated by Naxalite rebels who subscribe to Communist ideology.

Early life

Mahato was from a Kudmi family. In 2003 he was part of a delegation that met with the Governor of

asking for recognition as a scheduled tribe.

Political career

Mahato was General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party. He was elected to Lok Sabha in the 2004 general election;

Abha Mahato Abha Mahato (born 27 October 1964) is an Indian parliamentarian from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Personal life Mahato was born in Deoghar (then in Bihar state) in 1964. She studied at Deoghar College (Bhagalpur University) from where she graduate ...

of the

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came in second. On 4 March 2007 he was shot dead by

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

rebels near

Ghatsila Ghatshila is a census town in the Ghatshila CD block in the Ghatshila subdivision of the East Singhbhum district, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. History Legend says that the royal family of the Kingdom of Dhalbhum had originated from t ...

in East

Singhbhum Singhbhum was a district of India during the British Raj, part of the Chota Nagpur Division of the Bengal Presidency. It was located in the present-day Indian state of Jharkhand. Chaibasa was the district headquarters. Located in the southern l ...

district while he was attending a local football match organised to mark the Hindu festival of

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. The attackers also killed the Ghatsila block secretary of JMM, Prabhakar Mahato, and two or four of Sunil Mahato's bodyguards. There were reported to be approximately 30 attackers, including three women.

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