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Ashutosh Tudu is an IndianMaoist politician and politburo member ofCommunist Party of India (Maoist).[1][2]
Tudu is popularly known as Motilal Soren alias Ashok. He belongs to Kolharia village inDhanbad district of Indian state ofJharkhand. Tudu joined theMaoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) in 1999. After the formation of Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2004, he became a prominent member of Central Committee and in charge of Eastern bureau of the Central Military Commission of the party.[3] Thereafter he became the member of Politburo, the highest decision-making body ofCPI (Maoist).[4][5] Tudu was allegedly involved with the attack in police armoury ofNayagarh town in February 2008 in which at least 14 people, including 13 policemen, were killed. Police claimed that he was the mastermind in the conspiracy to murder ofVishva Hindu Parishad leader SwamiLakshmanananda Saraswati and also involved in the murder of former Jharkhand chief ministerBabulal Marandi's son Anup Marandi in October 2007.[6] He was wanted inOrissa,Andhra Pradesh,Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,West Bengal andBihar. Police arrested Tudu and another Maoist leader Atul Yadav alias Rajiv on 3 March 2009[7] near steel cityRourkela while they were returning fromSaranda forest after a meeting.[3][6][8]