Mohan Punamia
Mohan Punamia was an Indian trade unionist and politician. Punamia, then the Rajasthan secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, was detained and jailed 1964-1965 under Defense of India Rules.[1]
In April 1964 Punamia was one of 32 members of the Communist Party of India National Council that broke away and formed the Communist Party of India (Marxist).[2] He served as the CPI(M) Rajasthan State Committee secretary.[3][4] When the Centre of Indian Trade Unions was founded in 1970, Punamiya became the founding president of CITU in Rajasthan.[1][5]
In 1981 Punamia was expelled from CPI(M).[6] A split also occurred in CITU, in 1982 Punamia founded the Rajasthan Trade Union Centre.[7][8][9] In 1983 he founded a new party, the Marxist Communist Party of India (MCPI).[3] Punamia served as secretary of MCPI.[10] In 1986 he founded the All India Centre of Trade Unions.[11]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Rakhahari Chatterji (1980). Unions, Politics, and the State: A Study of Indian Labour Politics. South Asian Publishers. pp. 60, 162.
- ↑ Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (1975). The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Journal. The Institute. p. 54.
- 1 2 Near East/South Asia Report. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1984. p. 147.
- ↑ Link. United India Periodicals. 1977. p. 15.
- ↑ P. P. Bhargava (1995). Trade Union Dynamism. Printwell. p. 67.
- ↑ Democratic World. Gulab Singh & Sons. 1981. p. 13.
- ↑ Trade Union Record. All-India Trade Union Congress. 1987.
- ↑ The Working Class. Centre of Indian Trade Unions. 1989. p. 8.
- ↑ G. L. Gaur (1986). Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 210.
- ↑ B. B. Goswami; Jayanta Sarkar (1997). Ethnicity, Politics, and Political Systems in Tribal India. Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Government of India. p. 146. ISBN 978-81-85579-38-2.
- ↑ Asian Recorder. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 1986. p. 19028.
- ↑ Data India. Press Institute of India. 1997. p. 513.