Vol. 10, Issue : 7
July 2018
We will always Remember and Emulate
Com. Kovai Eswaran
One year has
passed since our
veteran leader Com
Kovai Eswaran left us
on July First due to ill
health. He was born
on 16 th July 1939 at
Gopichettipalayam in
Coimbatore district.
As a son of freedom
fighter he participated
in many a struggle at
early age. With his political activities he was
gradually drawn towards the communist ideology
and became a member of the Communist Party of
India. He was dismissed from the job by the
government because of his political activity.
Com. Eswaran rejected revisionism and neo-
revisionism and adopted revolutionary politics. He
joined the CPI(ML( led by Com.Charu Mazumdar.
He worked in Dharmapuri district and became a
familiar leader. He differed with CM’s annihilation
line. From 1970 he started working in the literary
front and started publishing a literary magazine
“Manithan” in Tamil. During the Emergency he
organised many struggles for democratic rights
under the banner of Tamil Nadu Human Rights
Organisation.
contd. on page 2
Com. Khokan Mazumdar
On May 29, 2017,
the colourful life of
com, Khokan Mazum-
dar, one of the leaders
of Naxalbari peasant
uprising
and
a
member of CC of
CPI(ML) came to an
end.
He was born in a
village in Barisal district
now in Bangla-desh.
His parents gave him
the name Abdul Hamid. He came to Kolkata at the
age of 14 and started working as a ward boy in Lake
Hospital. He came into contact with the communist
party. He was arrested while leading the struggles
of hospital staff.
After becoming the party member, Com.Khokan
Mazumdar was sent to Darjeeling district. He joined
com. Kanu Sanyal in organising the tea garden
workers and peasants in Naxalbari area that led to
stormy struggles in Siliguri sub division. While
waging ideological struggle within the party, the
leaders of the area like Kanu Sanyal, Khokan
Mazumdar, Jangal Santhal, Keshav Sarkar,
Kadamlal Mallick were organising the masses into
struggles. Thus the Naxalbari peasant uprising
shook the Indian political scene. It made a
demarcation between revolutionary line and
revisionist line.
contd. on page 2
Organ of the Central Committee of CPI(ML)