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	'''Vinod Mishra''' ({{lang-hi\|विनोद मिश्रा}}; 24 March 1947 – 18 December 1998) was an Indian [[communist]] politician. Mishra served as the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]] between 1975 and 1998.		'''Vinod Mishra''' ({{lang-hi\|विनोद मिश्रा}}; 24 March 1947 – 18 December 1998) was an Indian [[communist]] politician. Mishra served as the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]] between 1975 and 1998.
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	==1972–1975==		==1972–1975==
	He was unconditionally released from prison on 20 June 1972 as one year without trial had passed. However, his release arose suspicion in the CPI(ML). He was deployed to a remote village in the Agradwip area of [[Burdwan district]]. Along with ~~[[Kartick Pal]]~~, he organized a peasants movement in the district. At the same time, chaos reigned in the CPI(ML). Mishra and Pal were included in the Burdwan Regional Committee of the party. In 1973 the CPI(ML) was split, with one group led by Sharma and another by Mahadev Mukherjee. Mishra initially belonged to Mukherjee's party, but he and the Burdwan Regional Committee broke with Mukherjee in September 1973. Mishra sought contact with the Sharma group, but the Burdwan Regional Committee was later divided and Mishra denounced the political line of Sharma (a critique, which amongst other things, called for the formation of open mass organizations, a move that almost constituted a heresy in the CPI(ML) movement at the time).<ref name="lib"/>		He was unconditionally released from prison on 20 June 1972 as one year without trial had passed. However, his release arose suspicion in the CPI(ML). He was deployed to a remote village in the Agradwip area of [[Burdwan district]]. Along with Kartik Paul, he organized a peasants movement in the district. At the same time, chaos reigned in the CPI(ML). Mishra and Pal were included in the Burdwan Regional Committee of the party. In 1973 the CPI(ML) was split, with one group led by Sharma and another by Mahadev Mukherjee. Mishra initially belonged to Mukherjee's party, but he and the Burdwan Regional Committee broke with Mukherjee in September 1973. Mishra sought contact with the Sharma group, but the Burdwan Regional Committee was later divided and Mishra denounced the political line of Sharma (a critique, which amongst other things, called for the formation of open mass organizations, a move that almost constituted a heresy in the CPI(ML) movement at the time).<ref name="lib"/>

	In 1974 Mishra came into contact with Subrata Dutta (Jauhar), a leader of armed struggle in the plain areas of [[Bihar]]. On 28 July 1974 (the second death anniversary of [[Charu Majumdar]]) a new party [[Central Committee]] was formed with Jauhar as General Secretary and Mishra and Swadesh Bhattacharya (Raghu) as members.<ref name="lib"/> The reorganized party became known as the 'anti-[[Lin Biao]]' group (whilst the faction of Mahadev Mukherjee constituted the 'pro-Lin Biao' group).<ref name="karat"/> The party would also become known as the CPI(ML) Liberation.<ref name="nax">''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)\|Frontline]]''. ''[http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm The road from Naxalbari] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017003722/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm \|date=2006-10-17 }}''. Volume 22 - Issue 21, 8–21 October 2005</ref>		In 1974 Mishra came into contact with Subrata Dutta (Jauhar), a leader of armed struggle in the plain areas of [[Bihar]]. On 28 July 1974 (the second death anniversary of [[Charu Majumdar]]) a new party [[Central Committee]] was formed with Jauhar as General Secretary and Mishra and Swadesh Bhattacharya (Raghu) as members.<ref name="lib"/> The reorganized party became known as the 'anti-[[Lin Biao]]' group (whilst the faction of Mahadev Mukherjee constituted the 'pro-Lin Biao' group).<ref name="karat"/> The party would also become known as the CPI(ML) Liberation.<ref name="nax">''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)\|Frontline]]''. ''[http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm The road from Naxalbari] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017003722/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm \|date=2006-10-17 }}''. Volume 22 - Issue 21, 8–21 October 2005</ref>

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{{Short description|Indian communist (1947–1998)}}
{{AfC topic|other}}
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| name = Partha Ghosh
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| image = Vinod Mishra CPIML LIBERATION.jpg
| caption = Mishra on the poster of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|CPIML]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|03|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|12|18|1947|03|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh]]
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| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|CPIML Liberation]]
| profession = [[Politician]]
| website =
| footnotes =
| office1 = General Secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation|CPIML Liberation]]
| predecessor1 = Subrata Dutta
| successor1 = [[Dipankar Bhattacharya]]
| term_start1 = 1975
| term_end1 = 1998
}}
'''Vinod Mishra''' ({{lang-hi|विनोद मिश्रा}}; 24 March 1947 – 18 December 1998) was an Indian [[communist]] politician. Mishra served as the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]] between 1975 and 1998.

==Early life and student activism==
Mishra was born to Suryakesh Mishra in [[Jabalpur]]. The family moved to [[Kanpur]] in 1955. Mishra studied at Adarsh Banga Vidyalaya Inter College. Later he graduated from Kanyakubja Degree College and was admitted at the Christ Church Degree College for post-graduate studies in [[Mathematics]]. He went on to study at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the [[Regional Engineering College]] in [[Durgapur, West Bengal|Durgapur]] in 1966. Mishra became associated with a group of leftwing students, who soon developed linkages to the [[AICCCR]]. Mishra led student rallies and a campus strike. By mid-1969 he had become a professional revolutionary.<ref name="lib"/>

Mishra became the secretary of the Durgapur Local Organising Committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] (formed out of the AICCCR) in the early 1970s. However, he was arrested (along with [[Mahadev Mukherjee]]). After having pass a period at [[Asansol]] hospital following brutal beatings by the police, he was sent to the Baharampur Central Jail. Mishra continued to conduct political activities inside the prison.<ref name="lib"/>

==1972–1975==
He was unconditionally released from prison on 20 June 1972 as one year without trial had passed. However, his release arose suspicion in the CPI(ML). He was deployed to a remote village in the Agradwip area of [[Burdwan district]]. Along with [[Kartick Pal]], he organized a peasants movement in the district. At the same time, chaos reigned in the CPI(ML). Mishra and Pal were included in the Burdwan Regional Committee of the party. In 1973 the CPI(ML) was split, with one group led by Sharma and another by Mahadev Mukherjee. Mishra initially belonged to Mukherjee's party, but he and the Burdwan Regional Committee broke with Mukherjee in September 1973. Mishra sought contact with the Sharma group, but the Burdwan Regional Committee was later divided and Mishra denounced the political line of Sharma (a critique, which amongst other things, called for the formation of open mass organizations, a move that almost constituted a heresy in the CPI(ML) movement at the time).<ref name="lib"/>

In 1974 Mishra came into contact with Subrata Dutta (Jauhar), a leader of armed struggle in the plain areas of [[Bihar]]. On 28 July 1974 (the second death anniversary of [[Charu Majumdar]]) a new party [[Central Committee]] was formed with Jauhar as General Secretary and Mishra and Swadesh Bhattacharya (Raghu) as members.<ref name="lib"/> The reorganized party became known as the 'anti-[[Lin Biao]]' group (whilst the faction of Mahadev Mukherjee constituted the 'pro-Lin Biao' group).<ref name="karat"/> The party would also become known as the CPI(ML) Liberation.<ref name="nax">''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]]''. ''[http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm The road from Naxalbari] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017003722/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm |date=2006-10-17 }}''. Volume 22 - Issue 21, 8–21 October 2005</ref>

==Party leader==
Mishra served as [[West Bengal]] secretary of the new party organization. Under Mishra's leadership new ''dalams'' (guerilla squads) were formed. In November 1975 Jauhar was killed. Mishra became the new party General Secretary in a reorganized five-member Central Committee. Mishra organized a second party congress, held clandestinely in the rural areas of [[Gaya district]] in February 1976. The congress unanimously re-elected Mishra as General Secretary.<ref name="lib"/>

On 1–2 January 1979 Mishra was encircled by police forces at Badpathujote in the Phansidewa area of [[Darjeeling district]]. In the midst of a prolonged gun-battle, Mishra sustained multiple injuries and his comrade Bakul Sen (alias Amal) was killed. Mishra was able to escape, assisted by the ''dalam'' commander Nemu Singh.<ref name="lib"/> Mishra secretly visited China in 1979.<ref name="lib"/>

After the [[1996 Bathani Tola Massacre|11 July 1996 massacre in Bathani Tola]], in which 21 [[Dalit]]s were killed by [[Ranvir Sena]], Mishra declared an '[[eye for an eye]]' policy of vengeance against the perpetrators of the massacre.<ref>''[[Hindustan Times]]''. ''[https://archive.today/20130208083541/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Formation-of-private-armies/Article1-3852.aspx Formation of private armies]''</ref>

Mishra was re-elected General Secretary of the party at the sixth congress of CPI(ML) Liberation in [[Varanasi]] in October 1997.<ref name="lib"/>

==Political legacy==
Mishra was the political architect of the process of re-orientation of CPI(ML) Liberation.<ref name="lib"/> By 1976 the party had adopted a position that armed struggle would be combined with building a broad anti-[[Indian National Congress|Congress]] democratic front movement.<ref name="nax"/> The process further elaborated through an internal rectification process initiated in late 1977. In the early 1980s CPI(ML)Liberation began building an open non-party mass movement (in direct contradiction to the original policy of CPI(ML)), the [[Indian People's Front]] (founded in April 1982). The construction of IPF, through which the underground party could develop links to other democratic forces on the basis of a popular, democratic and patriotic programme, was based on interventions by Mishra.<ref name="lib"/> After the fifth party congress of CPI(ML)Liberation, Mishra left his underground life. He made his first public appearance in 25 years at a rally on the [[Maidan (Kolkata)|Parade Grounds]] of [[Calcutta]] in December 1992.<ref name="lib"/> However although Mishra broke with the dogmas of the early CPI(ML), he never renounced Charu Majumdar's legacy.<ref name="karat">[[Prakash Karat|Karat, Prakash]]. ''[http://cpim.org/marxist/198501_marxist_naxalism_Prakash.htm Naxalism Today; At an Ideological Deadend]''. ''The Marxist'', Volume: 3, No. 1, January–March 1985</ref>

==Death==
On 18 December 1998, in connection with a Central Committee meeting in [[Lucknow]], Mishra suffered a [[heart attack]] and died later the same day.<ref name="lib"/> He was cremated in [[Patna]] on 22 December 1998, with thousands of followers taking part in the ceremony. "[[The Internationale]]" was played at the funeral. His body was wrapped in the [[red flag (politics)|red flag]] as it was cremated at the electric crematorium at Bansghat. Guests at the funeral included former Union Minister [[Chaturanan Mishra]] (of the [[Communist Party of India]]) and the [[Nepal]]ese communist leader [[Madhav Kumar Nepal]].<ref>''[[Indian Express]]''. ''[http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19981223/35750184.html Vinod Mishra cremated in Patna]''</ref>

==Personal life==
Mishra married thrice; in 1974 to Jyotsna (an underground cadre), in 1983 to Shikha (a party cadre) from Calcutta and in 1991 to fellow Central Committee member Kumudini Pati.<ref name="lib">Sen, Arindam. ''[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_1999/january/homage11.htm The Life of Vinod Mishra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210847/http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_1999/january/homage11.htm |date=2015-09-23 }}''</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mishra/index.htm Vinod Mishra Internet Archive]
*[http://www.cpiml.org/archive/vm_swork/indexvmsw.htm Vinod Mishra Selected Works]
*[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_1999/january/homage6.htm Condolence Messages]

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