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Jhantu Mukherjee or Pulendu Shekhar Mukherjee commonly known by his alias Sahab Da is an Indian Maoist politician and Central Committee member of Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Political life
Mukherjee hails from North 24 Parganas district in Indian state of West Bengal. Since 2007 he was the Secretary of the Eastern Regional Bureau of CPI (Maoist). He had been appointed in-charge of the Urban Sub Committee (USCOM), spearheading party activities in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. Mukherjee also known as Joy Da in the party. There are 10 cases against Mukherjee in Chhattisgarh and he is wanted by the police of several Maoist hit states, including Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand. Before the arrest he also looked after the Partys military wing, People Liberation Guerrilla Army. On 29 April 2011, Special Task Force of Bihar Police arrested Mukherjee along with two other senior Maoist Leader Vijay Kumar Arya and Varanasi Subramanyam from Sheetgaon village under Barsoi police station of Katihar district. Mukherjee was sent to Special Central Jail in Bhagalpur.
