Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri | |
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Punjab, British India | |
Died | 27 May 2013 Ludhiana, Punjab, India | (aged 96)
Alma mater | Khalsa College, Amritsar Government Law College, Lahore |
Political party | Indian National Congress (1935–1940) Punjab Kirti Kisan Party (1940–1944) Communist Party of India (1944–1964) Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1964–1992) Marxist Communist Party of India (1992–2005) Marxist Communist Party of India (United) (from 2005) |
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (10 April 1917 – 27 May 2013) was an Indian politician.
Political activist
Prior to the
After Partition
As a result of Partition, Lyallpuri moved to Ludhiana.
In April 1953, he was elected Joint Secretary of the
Lyallpuri was a member of the National Council of CPI, elected at the 1958 extraordinary party conference in Amritsar.[8] In 1961 he became the general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.[2] In 1959 Lyallpuri and Harkishan Singh Surjit emerged as the leaders of a mass peasants struggle against the Khush Hasiyati Tax, a campaign mobilised by the Punjab State Committee of the Communist Party.[9]
In CPI(M)
In 1964, he took part in
During his years as a CPI(M) leader, Lyallpuri found himself in constant conflicts with the party leadership.[5]
Lyallpuri contested the Ludhiana Rural seat in the 1980 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 17,874.[10]
Dissident leader
In 1992 Lyallpuri led a split in the CPI(M) in protest against rapprochement with the Congress Party. Lyallpuri and other CPI(M) dissidents joined the Marxist Communist Party of India.[1][5][11] Lyallpuri became the general secretary of MCPI.[5]
When the Marxist Communist Party of India (United) was founded in 2005, Lyallpuri became its general secretary.[1]
Autobiography
In 2010 Lyallpuri released his autobiography, My Life My Times.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hindustan Times. Oldest surviving founder member of CPM passes away at 96 Archived 29 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d The Tribune. Veteran leader Lyallpuri turns 95
- ^ Red Star. Com. Jagjit Singh Lyalpuri Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 62. Indian History Congress, 2002. p. 595
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hindustan Times. Champion of the downtrodden Archived 1 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Indian Express. Comrade Jagjit Singh dies at 96
- ^ Overstreet, Gene D., and Marshall Windmiller. Communism in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. p. 389
- ^ Overstreet, Gene D., and Marshall Windmiller. Communism in India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. pp. 541–542
- ^ Sidhu, Ajmer. From Ghadar to Naxalbari – Baba Buhja Singh an untold story. Barnala: Tarkbharti Parkashan, 2013. p. 93
- ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1980 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB
- ^ The Tribune. Surjeet’s death mourned