Obituary

Comrade Kedar Pradhan is no more with us. He passed away on 29th May 2025. He was 71 years old. Comrade Pradhan was Vice President of AICCTU, Odisha and former General Secretary of Ispat Shramik Sangh in Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). He was also a former State Committee Member of CPI-ML.

He was very dedicated towards the rights of workers and used to fight for all the workers including contract workers in RSP. He took the initiative of forming the party in Rourkela in the 80s.

We are deeply saddened by the demise of Comrade Sanjay Singhvi, the General Secretary of TUCI and a PB member of the party CPI-ML Mass Line.

He was a renowned advocate who consistently fought for labour rights.

AICCTU and TUCI have jointly worked on various issues of the working class. 

His sad demise is a big loss to the cause of workers.

Frontline leader of the CPIML movement, former member of the Polit Bureau, former Bihar State Secretary and popular Marxist teacher Comrade Ramjatan Sharma passed away at the Indira Gandhi Heart Institute in Patna on 6 June 2021 after a heart attack.

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 - 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 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.