[1] Ghosh emerged as a CPI(M) leader in an era of violent politics in several areas of rural Bengal and is a known "hardliner" face across the state.
Ghosh's area of West Midnapore district has long been the hub of violence directed against members of the political opposed parties.
Despite his re-election, he was sidelined in CPI(M) due to his alleged associations with criminal cases and court-induced ban on his entry in his own district.
In November 2010, Ghosh was himself in the news for suggesting that the CPI(M) cadres should beat up Trinamool workers ("Prem noy, oder pyadani din.
"The witness, Gobinda Majhi of Godapiashole village in Keshpur, has told us that the five Trinamul supporters were being chased by a large group of CPM activists", the CID officer said.
On 3 September, another key accomplice who had gone into hiding, the CPI(M) local committee secretary Shankar Shau, was arrested from Kolkata.
Shau, who had been the headmaster of Benachapra Primary School, had been expelled from the party for corruption in 2007, but was re-instated at Ghosh's insistence.
In August 2011, Ghosh was arrested for the murder of seven persons, and spent around six months in jail while several bail applications were turned down by the high court.