Vol. 21 / No. 44 / Comrade Ambarish Rai

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Comrade Ambarish Rai

Some eighty years ago, Ambedkar had warned us 'if Hindu Raj becomes a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country' and he could not have been more prophetic.


CPIML is profoundly grieved at the sudden death of AIPF leader and leader of the education movement Ambarish Rai.

Comrade Ambarish Rai fallen a victim of Covid19 and the Oxygen crisis in Delhi. We have fond memories of working with him in the Indian People's Front, AICCTU and CPIML in the 1990s and in recent years again in the All India People's Forum.

During his student days and younger years he was with the AISF and CPI in UP, came over to the CPIML and worked as a member of the party's UP State Committee for several years. In the last phase of his life he gave up active political work and turned to social activism, focusing on land rights and the right to education.

Adieu, Comrade Ambarish!

 

Published on 28 April, 2021