Comrade Ajit Chaudhuri

COMRADE Ajit Chaudhuri, district secretariat member of the north 24 Parganas unit of the CPI(M) and an outstanding TU organiser, passed away on February 22 in Kolkata.  He was 71 and he had suffered from a massive cerebral haemorrhage on February 20. Comrade Chaudhuri’s last remains have been handed over to the Nilratan Sarkar (NRS) medical college and hospital as per his wishes.

State secretary of the CPI(M), Anil Biswas who kept constant touch with the north 24 Parganas Party units as soon as he had heard about the crippling stroke that Comrade Ajit Chaudhuri had suffered from, expressed his deep sorrow at the passing of Comrade Chaudhuri.  In a statement Biswas described Comrade Chaudhuri as a long-standing Party leader and Party organiser and recalled the role the departed comrade had played in building up the Party in the working class areas of the north 24 Parganas district.

State general secretary of the CITU, Kali Ghosh described Comrade Chaudhuri as his long-time comrade-in-arms in the CITU and recalled the role Comrade Chaudhuri had played in strengthening the CITU.

Born at Rajshahi in 1934 in what was East Pakistan, Comrade Ajit Chaudhuri came over to live in Kolkata the year India was divided up.  He joined the Jessop’s and was soon engaged as a young man in the task of organising the workers there into a trade union called the Jessop’s Mazdoor Union.  The factory owners soon threw him out of work. 

A member of the CPI in 1955, Comrade Chaudhuri kept in close touch with the working class especially in what was undivided 24 Parganas and he emerged as one of the leading organisers not only of the Party but also of the CITU in this district.  A state secretariat member of the Bengal CITU, Comrade Ajit Chaudhuri was also a member of the organisation’s all-India Working Committee. Comrade Chaudhuri leaves behind his widow and a son.