Port Blair, Nov 23: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Andaman & Nicobar State Committee expresses profound grief at the sudden demise of Comrade Sukomal Sen, Ex-MP and former All India Vice President of Centre of Indian Trade Unions today at 10 am after prolonged illness. He was 83 years. Comrade Sukomal Sen is one of those veterans in the working class and employees’ movement in the country who contributed immensely both ideologically and organizationally in building broadest unity of the working people and also channelizing the movement in the track of class orientation consistently exposing the successive policy regimes under the capitalist order through its various phases. He was one of the frontline organizers of the state Govtemployees movement not only in West Bengal but in other states of the country and he was one of the founder leaders of the All India State Govt Employees Federation (AISGEF) since its birth in 1960 and led the Federation as its General Secretary From 1982 to 2008. He was Senior Vice Chairman of AISGEF till his demise. He had been Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for decades.
With Comrade Sukomal Sen’s demise, the country lost a stalwart leader of the Working Class movement as well as a Scholar Visionary and a great teacher. At present juncture of the working class movement facing tremendous physical as well as ideological offensives, Comrade Sen’s absence is an irreparable loss.
CITU dips its flag in respect to the memory of the departed leader and conveys heartfelt condolence to all the comrades and his bereaved family members.
