Indradeep Sinha

Veteran Communist leader, Shri Indradeep Sinha was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family at Shakara village in Siwan District of Bihar in July, 1914. [cite news
url = http://164.100.47.5/rsdebate/synopsis/199/21072003.htm
date = 2008-04-04
accessdate = 2008-04-04] Indradeep Sinha had a brilliant academic carrier securing a gold medal in post-graduation in Economics from Patna University. [cite news
url = http://www.solidnet.org/cgi-bin/agent?parties/0370=india,_communist_party_of_india/955india1au03.doc
title = Com. Indradeep Sinha Remembered
author = V.Gangadhar
publisher = New Age
date = 2003–08-01
accessdate = 2008-04-04] He wrote about 25 books and his writings are guidelines for the next generation committed to people's cause. [cite news
url = http://www.solidnet.org/cgi-bin/agent?parties/0370=india,_communist_party_of_india/955india1au03.doc
title = Com. Indradeep Sinha Remembered
author = V.Gangadhar
publisher = New Age
date = 2003–08-01
accessdate = 2008-04-04] He chose to serve the people by fighting for political freedom of the nation and social and economic justice to its people. A lecturer and journalist by vocation, Shri Sinha was Secretary of the Bihar State Council of the Communist Party of India from 1962 to 1967 and had served as the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha since 1973 till late nineties. Shri Sinha was also editor of the ‘Hunkar’, ‘Janasakti’ and ‘New Age’ weeklies. Shri Indradeep Sinha started his legislative career with the membership of the Bihar Legislative Council, where he was a member from 1964 to 1974. He also served as the Minister of Revenues in the United Front Government of Bihar from 1967 to 1968. As Revenues Minister, he took several initiatives to ameliorate the condition of the poor and downtrodden class and took steps for distribution of land to the landless in the State. Shri Sinha represented the State of Bihar in the Rajya Sabha for two terms from April, 1974 to April, 1980 and again from July, 1980 to July, 1986.

Partial Bibliography of books authored

*Crisis of capitalist path in India: The policy alternatives, Communist Party of India (1982).
*On certain ideological positions of CPI(M), Communist Party of India (1983).
*Real face of JP's total revolution, Communist Party of India (1974).
*Some features of current agrarian situation in India, All India Kisan Sabha, (1987).
*Some questions concerning Marxism and the peasantry, Communist Party of India (1982).
*Sathi ke Kisanon ka Aitihasic Sangharsha (Historic Struggle of Sathi Peasants), in Hindi, Patna (1969).

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