374:. He served as the Minister of Industry and Commerce after Chhattisgarh was carved out from its parent state Madhya Pradesh in the Ajit Jogi cabinet though he was known as a political adversary of Jogi. In 2003, his party Indian National Congress suffered defeat in the legislative assembly elections and he was made the leader of opposition in the state assembly. He used to represent Dantewada constituency. The congress again lost the
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Parliament. Earlier, Naxalties had killed his brother
Podiyaram who was president of the Bhairamgad Janpad Panchayat. They had also killed around 20 of his relatives in the subsequent period. His son Chavindra Karma was also Jila Panchayat Chairman of Dantewada and is in hit list of Maoist and Deepak Karma is currently (as of 2013), Nagar Panchayat president of Dantewada.
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On 27 May, the
Naxalites claimed responsibility for the attack by issuing a statement which called the attack "the punishment for Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma for the atrocities done by the Salwa Judum-Nand Kumar Patel was suppressing people. It was in his tenure in the Center when paramilitary
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who was himself a powerful, strong leader in the undivided Bastar region. He received his higher secondary education from Bastar Higher
Secondary School, Jagdalpur in 1969 and completed his graduation from Danteshwary College in 1975. His elder brother Lakshman Karma had also been a Member of
354:(CPI). He won the 1980 general elections on the ticket of CPI. Later on he joined the Indian National Congress. He was then elected as the first president of the Zila Panchayat of the undivided Bastar. In 1996 general elections, Karma was elected to the
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which was composed mostly of traders and businessmen. The movement collapsed after sometime. Because of his role against
Maoists, Karma was a high-value target. Owing to the threat perception to his life by the Maoists, he was given
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swept 10 out of the 11 seats in Bastar. He had secured 158,520 votes (35.19%). In the region, he was known as "Bastar Tiger"-for making a tough stand against the regional
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419:forces were deployed in the Bastar area."
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583:"Election Commission of India - Archives"
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446:List of assassinated Indian politicians
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61:December 2003 – December 2008
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66:Minister of Industry and Commerce,
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311:2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley
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674:. 9 November 2012. Archived from
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305:of Industry and Commerce in the
301:group in Chhattisgarh. He was a
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975:Current Rajya Sabha members
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1068:Deaths by firearm in India
1063:Terrorism victims in India
1038:Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
637:"Dainik Bhaskar - E-paper"
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376:2008 assembly elections
313:while returning from a
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832:An article in Outlook
325:Early life and family
260:Danteshwari College,
403:for his protection.
360:Member of Parliament
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390:Anti-Naxal movement
242:Farsapal, Dantewada
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295:Naxalites
262:Jagdalpur
247:Education
207:Dantewada
179:Dantewada
150:1980–1985
146:In office
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508:Archived
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356:Loksabha
346:Politics
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