tribute

The singer-composer and a maestro extraordinaire of Mass Songs Pratul Mukhopadhyay passed away on 15 February 2025. He was 83. He was admitted at SSKM hospital, Kolkata with lung infection, underwent emergency surgery and later was detected to have had cancer. Following his pledge his eyes and body were donated to the hospital for research and  teaching  purposes. Comrade Kartick Pal, member, Politburo of CPIML along with other state members paid revolutionary tribute to the memory of Pratulda.

Comrade Dashrath Yadav, 86, passed away on 10 Feb 2025 at his residence in Purnia. He played a significant role in expanding the party during its underground days and later as a leader of Indian People’s Front in 80s. He organised milk vendors into a robust union in Purnia and Katihar districts. This union later became associated with the IPF.

A memorial meet to pay tributes to Comrade Rajaram was organised in Delhi at HKS Surjeet Bhavan on 25 September. This was attended by a large number of activists and many old timers who had a chance to work with comrade Rajaram when he was in Delhi at the central office of Indian People's Front. Prof. Gopal Pradhan, senior journalist Urmilesh, Chandra Bhushan, former Rajya Sabha television journalist Irfan, former BBC journalist Rajesh Joshi and prof.

A memorial meeting to pay tributes to Comrade Rajaram, former central committee member and Chairperson of Central Control Commission of CPIML, was held in Patna on 14 September 2023 at Jagjivan Ram Institute which was also attended by all constituents of Mahagathbandhan parties in Bihar. Comrade Rajaram was the founder general secretary of Indian People’s Front (IPF) which played a crucial role in strengthening the general democratic movement during the 80s and 90s.

Comrade Rajaram passed away on 1 September at PMCH in Patna. A member of Bihar state standing committee of CPIML and a veteran of the 1974 movement, he was a member of the party's central committee for almost two and a half decades and then chairperson of the Central Control Commission for two terms. He was the founder general secretary of the Indian People's Front (IPF).

The CPIML remembered comrade Brij Bihari Pandey on his second memorial day on 26 August. A memorial meeting was held at Patna. Among the founding leaders of the party, he was the Chairperson of the party's Central Control Commission, ex-Editor of Samkaleen Lokyudh and Liberation, and a longtime CC member.

On the 24th anniversary of the Manjolai massacre, rank and files of CPIML Liberation paid their respect to the victims of 17 Dalit tea garden workers who were killed in the police brutality in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district. On July 23, 1999, the workers from the Tea estates of Manjolai organised a protest march to Tirunelveli Collectorate to submit a memorandum demanding wage hike, maternity leave and better living conditions for the tea plantation workers.

On 19th Martyrdom Day of CPIML leader Rameshwar Ravidas, a resolution meeting was organised at Shaheed Maidan in Surunga (Baliapur) of Dhanbad, Jharkhand on June 18, 2023. While addressing the gathering, the speakers said that Com Rameshwar fought for the rights of the Dalit and deprived communities throughout his life. Along with the struggle of the coal workers, he became a vocal voice against the coal sector management on the issue of the compensation to the farmers for acquired land.

Call to strengthen women's movement and anti-drug campaign for social equality

In Mansa (Punjab), on June 23, 2023, on the occasion of 16th death anniversary of CPIML leader Comrade Jeeta Kaur, a Chetna Sammelan was organised. A call was given to organise women for social, economic, political and cultural equality and to strengthen the 'Nasha Nahi Rojgar Do' (Give Employment Not Drug Menace) campaign.

Tributes were paid to the martyrs’ of the ghastly massacre in Arwal. In 1986 police indiscriminately opened fire on peacefully demonstrating villagers killing twenty three. Dozens more were injured in this incident.