OBITUARY: VETERAN COMMUNIST LEADER COM JS LYALLPURY (1917-2013)

(Editor–For a People’s Democracy;  May 28, 2013)

 

Veteran communist and all India general secretary of Marxist Communist Party of India (united) MCPI (U) Comrade Jagjit Singh Lyallpury passed away on May 27,2013 at 11:30 pm after brief illness.

 

Born on april 10, 1917 com. Lyallpuri was a committed marxist communist. he was one of the 12 members who drafted the revolutionary party programme of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. He remained general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha with com. A.K.Gopalan as president. He has drafted many documents on national and international  issues. Recently he wrote his biography, “My Life My Times” which is an asset and a guide to Marxism for the present generation.

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