SALUTE COMRADE BARDHAN

Veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan passed away on Saturday evening in New Delhi. The condition of veteran CPI leader AB Bardhan, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital following paralytic stroke last month. “Condition of Comrade Bardhan has worsened today. He was put off ventilator yesterday and was able to breath normally. But today, his blood pressure (level) fell and his condition has turned very critical,” CPI national secretary D Raja had said.
Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan has been a leading figure of the trade union movement and Left politics in Maharashtra. He had won as an Independent candidate in Maharashtra Assembly polls in 1957. He later rose to become the General Secretary and then President of All India Trade Union Congress, the oldest trade union in India. Bardhan had moved to Delhi politics in the 1990s and became the Deputy General Secretary of CPI. He succeeded Indrajit Gupta as the General Secretary of the party in 1996.
A. B. Bardhan was the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), one of the oldest political parties in India. He was from Nagpur and contested many elections from there winning only one - the 1957 for the Maharashtra State Assembly as an Independent candidate. He lost the 1967 and 1980 Lok Sabha elections contesting from Nagpur. He moved to Delhi politics in the 1990s and became the deputy general secretary of the party. Bardhan’s wife, a professor in Nagpur University, had died in 1986.
Bardhan has been a leading figure of the trade union movement and Left politics in Maharashtra and had won as an Independent candidate in the Maharashtra Assembly in 1957. He later rose to become the General Secretary and then the President of the All India Trade Union Congress, the oldest trade union in India. Bardhan moved to Delhi politics in the 1990s and became the Deputy General Secretary of the CPI. He succeeded Indrajit Gupta as the General Secretary of the party in 1996.