[Marxistindia] Comrade Gautam Das

[news from the cpi(m)]

September 16, 2021
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Comrade Gautam Das
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its
deep shock and grief at the sudden death of Gautam Das, member of its
Central Committee and Secretary of the Tripura State Committee of the Party.
He died this morning at a Kolkata hospital where he was undergoing treatment
for Covid. He was 70 years old.
 
Right from his school days Gautam Das was active in politics as part of the
student movement in the state. Even while in college he joined the Party's
weekly Desharkatha. When the Desharkatha became a daily in 1979, he became
its founding Editor, a responsibility he discharged with distinction until
2015, when he took up more organisational responsibilities in the Party. He
was instrumental in developing Desharkatha as a full-fledged newspaper. He
was one of the founding members of the Agartala Press Club. He was also very
active in the cultural movement and was founder secretary of the Tripura
Sanskriti Samanway Kendra. 
 
He joined the Party in 1968, was elected to the Tripura State Committee in
1986, to the State Secretariat in 1994 and as its Secretary in 2018. He was
elected to the Central Committee at the 21st Congress of the Party in 2015.
In the past three years he worked steadfastly to steer the Party facing the
reign of terror.
 
His family having roots in Chittagong, he had great attachment to
Bangladesh. This helped him maintain cordial relations with the political
parties there, on behalf of the Party.
 
He led a very simple life and was a comrade of high loyalty and commitment
to the Party's cause. His departure, coming at a time when the Party is
valiantly facing vicious and violent attacks in Tripura, is a big loss.
 
The Polit Bureau conveys its heartfelt condolences to his wife Tapati Sen,
daughter Swagata Das and other family members.
 
 
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