[Marxistindia] Comrade Mahendra Singh

[news from the cpi(m)]

July 4, 2021
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Comrade Mahendra Singh
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its
deep shock and grief at the sudden death of a member of its Central
Committee and veteran leader of the Party in Maharashtra, Mahendra Singh. He
died this morning owing to a heart attack. He had recovered from Covid a few
months back. Mahendra Singh was 77 years old.
 
Trained as an engineer, while working, he began a union of workers in his
own factory and left his job. He joined the CPI(M) in 1971 and plunged into
trade union work under the then newly formed CITU. In 1985 he survived a
murderous attack on him by goons hired by the management of the Aristocrat
company, where the CITU-affiliated union was leading a struggle. 
 
He was elected to the CPI(M) Maharashtra State Committee in 1987, to the
State Secretariat in 1991, and to the Central Committee in 2015. He remained
in these positions till his death. He was Secretary of the CPI(M) Mumbai
District Committee from 1994 to 2015 and played a major role in sustaining
and developing the Party in Mumbai. He was also the founder State General
Secretary of the DYFI from 1986 to 1989. 
 
He led a very simple life and was a comrade of the highest integrity and
loyalty to the Party. 
 
The Polit Bureau conveys its heartfelt condolences to his wife Savitri.
 
 
(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office) 
 
 
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