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AB Bardhan's demise great loss to communist movement in India: CPI

Veteran Communist leader A. Bardhan breathed his last on Saturday in a private hospital here.

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Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Saturday expressed his condolences to the grieving family of Veteran Communist leader A. B. Bardhan who breathed his last in a private hospital here today adding that it is a great loss for the entire communist movement in the country. "It's a great loss not only for CPI but for entire communist movement of country. His demise marks the end of an era of communist leaders who fought for independence of the nation," D. Raja told the media here. ?It is a great loss to our party cpi and also to the left movement," CPI-M's Gurudas das gupta told ANI here.

Veteran Communist leader A . Bardhan breathed his last on Saturday in a private hospital here. He was 91 and was being treated at G. B. Pant hospital here. He was undergoing treatment after tests detected a blood clot in his brain and had described his condition as 'critical' . Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan was born September 24, 1924. He was the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), one of the oldest political parties in India. Following paralytic stroke he was admitted to the hospital on December 7, 2015. His wife Padma, who was a professor in Nagpur University, had died in 1986.

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.

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