Obituary

Red Salute to comrade Lakshmanbhai Patanwadia

Comrade Lakshmanbhai Patanwadia, a senior Communist leader from Gujarat, a member of CPI-ML State leading team and AICCTU Central Working Committee, passed away on 4th May 2021 at a hospital in Ahmedabad. Three days ago, he tested positive for Covid and was undergoing treatment at the hospital since then.

Comrade Patanwadia was a strong voice in Gujarat against communal fascism. His demise is an irreparable loss to the revolutionary people's movement and the trade union movement in Gujarat.

Long live Comrade Lakshmanbhai Patanwadia!

Comrade Achintya Sinha 

Comrade Achintya Sinha - Senior Member of the All India Secretariat of AIUTUC and a veteran trade union leader, breathed his last at Calcutta on 16 April 2021 at the age of 75 years due to multiple organ failure being infected by Covid19. He was associated for a long period in the trade union movement of the various sections of the working people across the country. His demise is a big loss to the TU movement of country. 

AICCTU conveys its deepest condolences. 

Red salute to Com. Achintya Sinha!

Comrade Bhalchandra Kerkar

 Comrade Bhalchandra Kerkar is no more. He fell to Covid19 on 25 April morning in a Pune hospital. We have lost a long-standing well-wisher and close friend of the AICCTU and CPI-ML, a senior leader of LIC employees’ movement and member of the Central Committee of Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) of Maharashtra. 

He took keen interest in organising a whole range of informal sector workers. He was also founding president of Domestic workers’ union in Pune. 

He used to closely follow the advances, and set¬backs, of the communist movement internationally.