: Sharmistha Choudhury leader of CPIML Red Star and Bhangar Movement No more #IndiaNEWSAll #East Sharmistha Choudhury was a politbureau member and leader of CPIML Red Star and its womens wing, All India

@IndiaNEWS

Posted in: #IndiaNEWSAll

Sharmistha Choudhury leader of CPIML Red Star and Bhangar Movement No more #IndiaNEWSAll #East
Sharmistha Choudhury was a politbureau member and leader of CPIML Red Star and its womens wing, All India Revolutionary Womens Organisation (AIRSO).
Sharmistha passed away on Sunday afternoon after battling medical conditions including COVID-19 for last four months. Yesterday she was admitted to SSKM hospital in Kolkata where died after a massive heart attack. She was and is survived by her husband Alik Chakraborty and daughter.
A fulltimer in the communist movement, Sharmistha had left her job as a journalist at The Telegraph to become a full-time political activist.
Sharmistha has been associated with peoples movements and mass movements in Bengal, always standing against oppression, land grab, eviction (be it Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh, Nonadanga or Bhangar) and taking away citizenship of the people.
Sharmistha was also known as a frontline leader in the revolutionary womens movement in India. Sharminshthas paper on Marxism and the Women’s Question is an important vision document for the future revolutionary struggles.
She was also part of Women Against Sexual Harassment and State Repression or WSS, and as part of it she went for important fact finding and documentation work from Bastar to Nandigram, and tried with others to uphold a feminist vision for the 99%.
A keen participant in the womens movement, workers movement in the jute industry, Sharmistha organised and led the anti land grab movement at Bhangar.
Bhangar Movement
Sharmistha was one of the key organisers of Bhangar land struggle against the Power Grid project.

In Bhangar movement, people fought against forceful land grab and for their rightful compensation against the Powergrid project.  Residents of around a dozen villages in Bhangar, under the banner of Jomi, Jibika, Poribesh O Bastutantra Raksha Committee (Committee for protection of land, livelihood, environment and ecology), had protested the TMC governments plans to set up a power station, alleging the project will cause health hazards and damage the ecology of the area.
As a leader of the committee, Sharmistha faced the wrath of the state, became a political prisoner and was imprisoned for few months under the draconian UAPA.
Bangar land struggle succeed in obtaining some concessions from Power Grid Corporation of India and Government of West Bengal.
Anti-NRC, CAA and No Vote to BJP Movement
Sharmistha represented the Jomi Jeebika Committee when the coalition of several grassroots based organisations came together to form the platform Anti NRC Peoples Movement to take forward the struggle against NRC, CAA, NPR. She was one of the convenors of the No Vote to BJP civil society movement against the fascists RSS and BJP in Bengal.

Intraday stocks under 50 NSE India Twitter of India

Vote Up Vote Down

Login to post a comment!