Comrade Bhagwan Das
We mourn the passing of Comrade Bhagwan Das, veteran leader of the Indian People’s Front (IPF) in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, who breathed his last on 7 August. Comrade Bhagwan Das had contested from Jugsalai as an IPF candidate for the Bihar Assembly.
Red Salute to Comrade Bhagwan Das!
Manoj Shrivastav
CPIML mourns the sudden demise of Shri Manoj Srivastav, former bureaucrat and academician, who succumbed to Covid19 in Patna AIIMS. An academic who ended up becoming a bureaucrat, he had served in various capacities through his illustrious professional career in Bihar. All through his career he remained true to his core concern for people's empowerment and good governance.
A rare public spirited intellectual, Manoj Srivastav will be sorely missed. He was a great story teller, full of ideas and anecdotes, and a great well wisher of the CPI(ML) movement in Bihar. Our deepest condolences to his family and admirers.
Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty
Veteran leader of the CPIM and CITU in West Bengal, Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty succumbed to Covid-19 at a Kolkata hospital. He was 76. He had been a former CPIM MP as well as former Minister in the West Bengal cabinet, who had led the CITU in West Bengal.
Our condolences to Comrade Shyamal’s comrades and family members.
Comrade Ranu Dasgupta
Comrade Ranu Dasgupta, veteran sympathiser of the Party since its formative years, passed away at her residence in Dumdum on 16 August. She was 92. Like her own family she played the role of an affectionate guardian for the Party, taking great care of all Party leaders and activists visiting her place.
Red Salute to Comrade Ranu Dasgupta!
Trepan Chauhan
The CPIML expresses deep grief at the demise of activist-writer Trepan Chauhan and pays tribute to his memory.
Trepan Chauhan was a writer and activist who always stood for the rights of the poor, workers and farmers through his writing and being active in movements. He stood strongly with the people of Uttarakhand in their struggles for the right to Jal-Jangal-Jameen (Water-Forest-Land). He carried out a long struggle by organizing local villagers against the forcible eviction of people for the Hydel Project at Falenda in Tihri. Trepan Chauhan supported small hydro projects run by the local people instead of big ones run by big companies. ‘Yamuna’ and ‘He Bwari’ were two of his novels which were written with the background of the struggle for Uttarakhand State. He worked to organize construction workers in Dehradun. Till his last breath he fought serious illnesses with exemplary forbearance and courage.
With his untimely death the CPIML has lost a friend and comrade.
