Harkishan Singh Surjeet


Harkishan Singh Surjeet was a Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the partys Political Bureau from 1964 to 2008.

Harkishan Singh Surjeet was born in 1916 in a peasant Sikh Jat family in the village of Ropawal, Jalandhar district of Punjab. He started his political career in the national liberation movement in his early teens, as a follower of the revolutionary socialist Bhagat Singh and in 1930 joined his Naujawan Bharat Sabha. 1936, Surjeet joined the Communist Party of India. He was a cofounder of the Kisan Sabha in Punjab. In the prewar years he started publishing Dukhi Duniya and Chingari. During the War, Surjeet was imprisoned by the colonial authorities. When India became independent and partitioned in 1947, Surjeet was the Secretary of CPI in Punjab. Although he sported a Sikh turban, throughout his life, Surjeet remained an atheist.

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