Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan, is a senior Politburo

Politburo

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 member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October...

. He has previously used Nirbhay Mukherjee, Kajal, Kishan-da and Mahesh as aliases. Kishan, the former MCCI chief is now No. 2 in the CPI (Maoist). He is in charge of Bihar

Bihar

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 and Jharkhand

Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

 and heading the Party’s Eastern Regional Bureau. And this Bengali

Bengali people

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 Maoist leader, 72 in age
, is also a known intellectual.

In September 2004, Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War

Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War

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 had joined to form CPI (Maoist). The agreement had been signed between Kishan, General Secretary, Central Committee of Maoist Communist Centre of India and Ganapathy, General Secretary Central Committee, CPI (M-L People's War).

Bose’s wife Sheela Marandi, another central committee member of CPI (Maoist) was arrested in 2006.

See also

• Muppala Lakshmana Rao
  Muppala Lakshmana Rao
  Muppalla Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy is present General Secretary of Communist Party of India . He was born in village Beerpur in Sarangapur mandal in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. He worked as teacher in Karimnagar district and deserted his job for higher education in Warangal...
  
  
• Mallojula Koteswara Rao
  Mallojula Koteswara Rao
  Mallojula Koteswara Rao , commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishenji, was a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India and the group's military leader.-Early Life:...
  
  
• Naxalite
  Naxalite
  The word Naxal, Naxalite or Naksalvadi is a generic term used to refer to various militant Communist groups operating in different parts of India under different organizational envelopes...
  
  
• Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
  Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
  The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country."...