Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was 92.
He has been a leading figure of the trade union movement and left politics in India and had played a key role in maintaining the space for Communists in national politics.
About Ardhendu Bhushan
Bardhan AB Bardhan was born on September 25, 1925, in Sylhet in the Bengal Presidency of undivided India (now in Bangladesh).
He had embraced Communism at the age of 15 after he moved to Nagpur and had joined All India Students’ Federation (AISF) at Nagpur University in 1940.
He had taken part in the freedom movement as a member of the All India Students Federation (AISF). Later he associated with the trade union movement to become general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC).
He had won as an independent candidate in Maharashtra assembly polls in 1957. He was CPI’s general secretary for 16 years from 1996. He had steered the CPI during the turbulent period of coalition politics at national level in the 1990s.
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