R.N. Upadhyaya

Indian politician and trade unionist

R.N. Upadhyaya was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army in 1938.[1] In 1940 he became a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.[1] He participated in the August 1942 Quit India movement.[1] He was jailed for his role in the independence struggle, and was released in 1946. He joined the Communist Party of India in 1952.[1]

During the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, he sided with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).[1] When CPI(M) was subsequently divided, he belonged to the group that supported the Naxalbari uprising and was expelled from CPI(M) mid-1967.[2] He joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).[1] He was a delegate, representing Uttar Pradesh, at the 1970 party congress of CPI(ML).[1] He took part in organizing the CPI(ML) Uttar Pradesh State Conference in Muzaffarnagar, at which Charu Majumdar participated.[1] Within he shared the positions of Satya Narayan Singh who opposed Majumdar's dominance over the party.[3]

Upadhyaya was an active trade unionist.[1] He led a strike of cigarette factory workers in Saharanpur in 1973.[1] Following the strike he was imprisoned for six months.[1] He worked with the trade union at Mansurpur Sugar Factory.[1] As CPI(ML) collapsed in the 1970s, Upadhyaya rejoined CPI.[1] The 1981 conference of the Uttar Pradesh Trade Union Council (of AITUC) elected Upadhyaya as one of its vice presidents.[4]

In 1997 he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, and became the Uttar Pradesh President of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions.[1][5]

Upadhyaya died on 18 November 2003 at PGI Hospital in Lucknow.[1]

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Liberation. Obituary
2. ^ The Anvil. Naxalbari and Subsequent Four Decades: A Retrospection
3. ^ Sumanta Banerjee (1984). India's Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising. Zed Books. p. 155\. ISBN 978-0-86232-037-9.
4. ^ Trade Union Record. All-India Trade Union Congress. 1981. p. 54.
5. ^ Liberation. Nimai Ghose. 2001. p. 32.