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19 Facts About Vinod Mishra

1.

Vinod Mishra went on to study at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Regional Engineering College in Durgapur in 1966.

2.

Vinod Mishra became the secretary of the Durgapur Local Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India in the early 1970s.

3.

Vinod Mishra was unconditionally released from prison on 20 June 1972 as one year without trial had passed.

4.

Vinod Mishra was deployed to a remote village in the Agradwip area of Burdwan district.

5.

Vinod Mishra initially belonged to Mukherjee's party, but he and the Burdwan Regional Committee broke with Mukherjee in September 1973.

6.

Vinod Mishra sought contact with the Sharma group, but the Burdwan Regional Committee was later divided and Vinod Mishra denounced the political line of Sharma.

7.

In 1974 Vinod Mishra came into contact with Subrata Dutta, a leader of armed struggle in the plain areas of Bihar.

8.

Vinod Mishra served as West Bengal secretary of the new party organization.

9.

Vinod Mishra became the new party General Secretary in a reorganized five-member Central Committee.

10.

Vinod Mishra organized a second party congress, held clandestinely in the rural areas of Gaya district in February 1976.

11.

Vinod Mishra was able to escape, assisted by the dalam commander Nemu Singh.

12.

Vinod Mishra was re-elected General Secretary of the party at the sixth congress of CPI Liberation in Varanasi in October 1997.

13.

Vinod Mishra was the political architect of the process of re-orientation of CPI Liberation.

14.

Vinod Mishra made his first public appearance in 25 years at a rally on the Parade Grounds of Calcutta in December 1992.

15.

However although Vinod Mishra broke with the dogmas of the early CPI, he never renounced Charu Majumdar's legacy.

16.

On 18 December 1998, in connection with a Central Committee meeting in Lucknow, Vinod Mishra suffered a heart attack and died later the same day.

17.

Vinod Mishra was cremated in Patna on 22 December 1998, with thousands of followers taking part in the ceremony.

18.

Vinod Mishra's body was wrapped in the red flag as it was cremated at the electric crematorium at Bansghat.

19.

Vinod Mishra married thrice; in 1974 to Jyotsna, in 1983 to Shikha from Calcutta and in 1991 to fellow Central Committee member Kumudini Pati.