Vidya Charan Shukla
IndiapoliticianMale6.0Global Dominance: 0.00%Vidya Charan Shukla was a veteran politician and former Union minister who was critically injured in the 2013 Jhiram Ghati attack and later succumbed to his injuries, marking a significant loss for the Congress party in Chhattisgarh.
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Former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla was critically injured in the ambush and died in hospital more than a week later.
He studied engineering, clashed with RSS on campus, then vanished in 1980 — how Basavaraju went from a middle-class Andhra family to becoming mastermind of the Jhiram Ghati massacre | Delhi NewsThe Times of India·India· 2026-09-17
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