[1] Mishra became the secretary of the Durgapur Local Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (formed out of the AICCCR) in the early 1970s.
After having pass a period at Asansol hospital following brutal beatings by the police, he was sent to the Baharampur Central Jail.
Mishra sought contact with the Sharma group, but the Burdwan Regional Committee was later divided and Mishra denounced the political line of Sharma (a critique, which amongst other things, called for the formation of open mass organizations, a move that almost constituted a heresy in the CPI(ML) movement at the time).
[1] In 1974 Mishra came into contact with Subrata Dutta (Jauhar), a leader of armed struggle in the plain areas of Bihar.
On 28 July 1974 (the second death anniversary of Charu Majumdar) a new party Central Committee was formed with Jauhar as General Secretary and Mishra and Swadesh Bhattacharya (Raghu) as members.
Mishra organized a second party congress, held clandestinely in the rural areas of Gaya district in February 1976.
In the midst of a prolonged gun-battle, Mishra sustained multiple injuries and his comrade Bakul Sen (alias Amal) was killed.
[4] Mishra was re-elected General Secretary of the party at the sixth congress of CPI(ML) Liberation in Varanasi in October 1997.
[1] By 1976 the party had adopted a position that armed struggle would be combined with building a broad anti-Congress democratic front movement.
[2] On 18 December 1998, in connection with a Central Committee meeting in Lucknow, Mishra suffered a heart attack and died later the same day.