Brij Behari Prasad

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Brij Behari Prasad, also spelled Braj Bihari Prasad (died 13 June 1998) was an Indian gangster and politician. A member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) (then Janata Dal), Prasad served as Minister for Science and Technology in the Government of Bihar. He was under judicial questioning for his office's alleged involvement in corrupt admissions to technical institutes and was murdered on 13 June 1998 at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna, where he was undergoing treatment . It was claimed that his death was in retribution for his involvement in assassination of gangster Chhottan Shukla and five other people, who were killed on 4 December 1994, while returning home from a campaign organised in context of 1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. Shukla was a gangster from the Bhumihar community, whereas Prasad was a kalwar leader. Supporters of Prasad were thought to be responsible for the killing of Shukla.

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