Nand Kumar Patel (8 November 1953 – 25 May 2013) was an Indian National Congress politician from the province of Chhattisgarh.
At first, Naxalites claimed to have kidnapped Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh keeping up the hopes of their coming back alive.
[3] On 27 May, the Naxalites claimed responsibility for the attack by issuing a statement which called it a punishment for atrocities committed by the Salwa Judum, the counter-Naxalite paramilitary forces in the Bastar area, and claimed the attack was targeted at its leader, Mahendra Karma.
[4] The newly elected Chhattisgarh government has set up an SIT under Vivekanand Sinha to probe into the incident on 2 January 2019.
[5][6] Shaheed Nandkumar Patel Vishwavidyalaya is an Indian state university in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh.