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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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'''Vijay Kumar Shukla''', also known as '''Kumar Munna''' or '''Munna Shukla''', is a former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) from [[Bihar]], India. He has been elected on three occasions to the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]. He served a jail term for murder. He was left out of jail on bail later.<ref name="indiatoday2012">{{cite news |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bihar-munna-shukla-extortion-nitishs-rally/1/226612.html |title=Lawless in Bihar: Ex-JD(U) MLA makes extortion calls in the name of Nitish's rally while still in jail |first=Giridhar |last=Jha|date=28 October 2012 |work=India Today |access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>

==Family and education==
He is the brother of Chhotan Shukla, a notorious gang member who was assassinated in 1994, allegedly by the henchmen of [[Brij Bihari Prasad]], a minister belonging [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] caste, who was a strongman from [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]]'s [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]. His another brother Bhutkun Shukla who was responsible for killing G.Krishnaiah, the [[District Magistrate]] of Gopalganj during Chhotan's funeral procession and is now also dead.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/pinned-lynch/235751 |work=Outlook |agency=PTI |title=Pinned Lynch |first=Smita |last=Gupta |date=15 October 2007 |access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref> His wife, Annu Shukla, is an MLA from his former seat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS04124.htm |title= Bihar - Lalganj |work =Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 results |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>

==Political career==
Shukla was first elected a MLA from the [[Lalganj, Bihar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Lalganj constituency]] in the [[February 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|February 2005 Bihar elections]] as a [[Lok Janshakti Party]] candidate. In the [[February 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|October elections of that year]] he won again after switching to be a [[Janata Dal (United)]] candidate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S04/partycomp51.htm |title=51 - Lalganj Assembly Constituency |work=Partywise Comparison Since 1977 |publisher=Election Commission of India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415073848/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S04/partycomp51.htm |archive-date=15 April 2012}}</ref>

Shukla later stood as an independent candidate for the [[Lok Sabha]] constituency of [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]]. There he lost to the national vice-president of the [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]], [[Raghuvansh Prasad Singh]]. He was debarred from election as he was convicted in the [[Brij Behari Prasad]] murder case along with [[Surajbhan Singh]].<ref name="indiatoday2012"/>

== Crime ==
The criminal careers of Shukla and of [[Anand Mohan Singh]], both of which were intertwined with politics, ran in parallel for many years and were of equal note. ''[[Tehelka]]'' said in 2007 that {{quote|it was his muscleman image that made Mohan’s name synonymous with terror in Bihar’s poverty-ridden Saharsa-Supaul belt for the past 20 years. He and Munna Shukla faced several criminal cases, many of them for murder, in various courts across Bihar. While Shukla still remains a dreaded figure around Muzaffarpur and Vaishali districts in north Bihar, Mohan is notorious in the Saharsa-Supaul belt as a criminal and sometimes as a kind of folk hero.<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news |title=Law's Arm: 13 Years Long |first=Anand |last=St Das |work=Tehelka |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |date=20 October 2007 |access-date=2015-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610131126/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |archive-date=10 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>}}

The two overlapped completely in 1994 at the time of the [[lynching]] of a [[Dalit]] [[district magistrate]] near to [[Muzaffarpur]] during the funeral cortege of Chhotan Shukla. In 2007 they were sentenced to death for their involvement in the murder but Shukla's sentence was later overturned on appeal, when it was determined that he was present but uninvolved, and Singh's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.<ref name="tehelka" /><ref name="hindu2012">{{cite news |date=11 July 2012 |title=Supreme Court upholds life term for ex-MP in DM murder case |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/supreme-court-upholds-life-term-for-exmp-in-dm-murder-case/article3625609.ece |access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>

While in jail for that offence in 2012, Shukla was studied for and was awarded a PhD by [[Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University]].<ref>{{cite news |work=The Telegraph |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120708/jsp/bihar/story_15703144.jsp#.VXflT6FVK1E |date=8 July 2012 |title=Masters in crime bask in doctoral glory from four walls of prison |author=Ramashankar |access-date=10 June 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Janata Dal (United) politicians]]
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[[Category:Criminals from Bihar]]
[[Category:Indian politicians convicted of crimes]]
[[Category:Lok Janshakti Party politicians]]
[[Category:Politicians convicted of murder]]
[[Category:Bihar MLAs 2005–2010]]
[[Category:People from Vaishali district]]
[[Category:Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University alumni]]
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