Prashant Bose

Prashant Bose, commonly known by his nom de guerre Kishan or Kishan da 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]

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In September 2004, Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War 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).[6]

Bose hails from Jadavpur, Kolkata. his wife Sheela Marandi, another central committee member of CPI (Maoist) was imprisoned from 2006 to 2016.[7]