In 2005, he played a top role in organising the Salwa Judum movement against Naxalites, a Maoist group in Chhattisgarh.

[1][2] He was assassinated by Naxalites on 25 May 2013 in the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley while returning from a Parivartan Rally meeting organised by his party in Sukma.

He was born on 5 August 1950[3][4] to Daraboda Karma in the Dantewada district who was himself a powerful, strong leader in the undivided Bastar region.

Earlier, Naxalties had killed his brother Podiyaram who was president of the Bhairamgad Janpad Panchayat.

He was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly from Dantewada and was appointed as a Minister of Prisons in the Digvijaya Singh cabinet in the undivided Madhya Pradesh.

[9] On 25 May 2013, Karma was killed in the Maoist attack in Darbha along with several other party leaders including Nand Kumar Patel when they were returning from a political rally.

"[12] The newly elected INC government of Chhattisgarh has set up an SIT under Vivekanand Sinha to probe into the incident on 2 January 2019.