Prashant Bose

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Prashant Bose
Nationality Indian
Other namesKishan, Kajal and Mahesh
OrganizationCommunist party of India
Criminal charge(s)left wing Insurgency, Murder, Criminal Conspiracy
Criminal penaltyJailed
SpouseSheela Marandi

Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan or Kishan da is an Indian politician who is a senior Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). [1] He has previously used Nirbhay Mukherjee, [2] Kajal, Kishan-da and Mahesh [1] as aliases. Kishan, the former MCCI chief is now No. 2 in the CPI (Maoist). [3] He is in charge of Bihar and Jharkhand [4] and heading the Party's Eastern Regional Bureau. [5] And this Bengali [1] Maoist leader, 74 in age [2] is also a known intellectual of the party. [1] He joined in Naxalite movements as a trade union activist in 1967 and continued to play a key role in Left-wing politics in India. [6]

In September 2004, Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War had merged 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). [7]

Bose hails from Jadavpur, Kolkata. His wife Sheela Marandi, [8] another central committee member of CPI (Maoist) was imprisoned from 2006 to 2016. [9] Bose and his wife has been arrested by Jharkhand police on 12 November 2021. [10] [11]

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  8. ↑ সংস্থা, সংবাদ. "Maoist Leader Arrested: ঝাড়খণ্ড পুলিশের হাতে গ্রেফতার শীর্ষ মাওবাদী নেতা কিসানদা, ধৃত তাঁর স্ত্রী শীলাও". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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  11. ↑ "Top Maoist leaders Prashanth Bose and his wife Sheela Marandi arrested in Jharkhand". Deccan News. 12 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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