Ranchi, Sept.6: The Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) paid homage to its
Member Comrade Purnendu Sekhar Mukherjee (Ambarda, Gaganda, Aakashada) who died on the morning of 7th August 2021 in Bansdroni area of South Kolkata due to many diseases including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) for a long time.
Conveying condolences to Purnendu’s kith and kin, his comrades and friends, CC appealed to the cadres to learn from his ideals and take them forth with great determination and revolutionary spirit.
CC in its release issued last night remembered him as a veteran Maoist revolutionary saying ‘the Indian Revolutionary movement lost a veteran Maoist revolutionary of the Naxalbari generation. His demise caused severe loss to the Party.”
The release issued by CC spokesperson Abhay explains how important Mukherjee was for his organization.
“Mukherjee gained the love and affection of the cadres of the party mainly in West Bengal where he worked. He was a people’s leader active in the left students’ organisation in his student days. He later took up a job but stuck to left politics. The Naxalbari Armed Peasant Revolt that inspired the youth of the country in the end of 1960s drew him into revolutionary politics. He divorced from the revisionist politics of the Marxist party and joined the Maoist Communist Centre that emerged in 1969 in the leadership of Comrade Kanhai Chatterjee and Comrade Amulya Sen. Since then he worked until his last breath with utmost dedication to accomplish New Democratic Revolution in India,” the release reads.
The release explains how Mukherjee faced repression. “Comrade Purnendu faced several kinds of repression. He was in jail during the emergency period. He passed through several ups and downs in the movement in his 55 years of revolutionary life. He stood steadfast and relentlessly worked to advance the revolutionary movement amidst the several ebbs and flows and twists and turns and strived to advance the movement,” the release reads.
