H. K. Vyas

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Hari Krishna Vyas (born 11 August 1922, date of death unknown) was an Indian politician.

Vyas was born on 11 August 1922.[1] As of the 1940s, Vyas was a student movement leader, active in the All India Students Federation.[2] He served as the president of the C.P. and Berar Trade Union Congress 1948–1949.[1] As of the 1950s and 1960s Vyas was the Rajasthan state secretary of Communist Party of India.[3][4] Vyas contested the Jodhpur City "B" seat in the 1951 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, receiving 4.7% of the votes.[4] In a subsequent bye-election in 1952, he won the Jodhpur City "B" seat with 27.9% of the votes.[4] He thus became the sole communist member of the first Rajasthan legislature.[5] In 1953 he became a member of the CPI National Council.[1][5] Around the late 1950s Vyas and V.V. Joshi founded Red Flag trade unions in the National Engineering Industries and Man Industries Corporation.[6] He lost the Jodhpur City II seat in the 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, coming in second place with 4,463 votes (20.94%).[7] In 1962 he became the Vice President of the Indian Association for Afro-Asian Solidarity.[1]

When the CPI split in 1964, Vyas remained in the party.[6] As the rival Communist Party of India (Marxist) had seized most of the trade union structures of CPI in Rajasthan, a new All India Trade Union Congress Rajasthan State Committee was formed in 1965 with Vyas as its secretary.[1][6]

In 1973 Vyas was appointed as the editor of the daily newspaper Janyug.[1][8][9] He was also in charge of managing the People's Publishing House.[2]

Vyas was the sole CPI candidate in Rajasthan in the 1980 Indian general election.[10] He contested the Ajmer seat, and came in third place with 51,524 votes (13.79%).[11]

In the 1980s Vyas emerged as a critic of the party leadership and a defender of the S.A. Dange line.[12] Whilst Dange himself left CPI to form the All India Communist Party, Vyas and Mohit Sen remained in CPI and sought to uphold the Dange line within the party.[12] Vyas was removed from the CPI National Council at the 13th party congress in 1986.[13] He returned to CPI and became its State secretary.[14] Vyas died prior to July 2002.[15][16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Rajasthan Directory & Who's who. Hindi Sahitya Mandir. 1982. p. 243.
  2. ^ a b Mainstream Weekly. My fond memories of Dr Usha Shrivastava
  3. ^ The Hindu. Rajasthan Opposition leaders held
  4. ^ a b c Lawrence Loy Shrader (1965). Politics in Rajasthan: A Study of the Members of the Legislative Assembly and the Development of the State's Political System. University of California. p. 371.
  5. ^ a b Marshall Windmiller (1994). Communism in India. University of California Press. p. 575. GGKEY:NSY99CAKNFU.
  6. ^ a b c Rakhahari Chatterji (1980). Unions, Politics, and the State: A Study of Indian Labour Politics. South Asian Publishers. pp. 57, 60, 162.
  7. ^ Election Commission of India. Rajasthan 1957
  8. ^ All India Kisan Sabha. 22nd Conference: Proceedings and Resolutions
  9. ^ Communist Party Publication. Communist Party of India. 1975. p. 68.
  10. ^ Link: Indian Newsmagazine. 1979. p. 24.
  11. ^ Communist Party of India. National Council (1980). Review of 1980 Mid-term Lok Sabha Elections and Resolutions Adopted by the National Council of the Communist Party of India, New Delhi, 30 January to 3 February 1980. Communist Party of India. p. 55.
  12. ^ a b Pakistan & Gulf Economist. Economist Publications. 1986. p. 60.
  13. ^ India Today. CPI: A party shake-up in an Indian version of glasnost
  14. ^ The Hindu. Rajasthan Opposition leaders held
  15. ^ "I have no enemies: Shekhawat". Rediff. 22 July 2002. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  16. ^ Raina, Badri (16 September 2018). "The Plight of Mohan Bhagwat's Lonesome Lion". The Wire. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
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