Mohan Punamia Explained

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]

He died in Jaipur on 4 July 1997.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rakhahari Chatterji. Unions, Politics, and the State: A Study of Indian Labour Politics. 1980. South Asian Publishers. 60, 162.
  2. Book: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Journal. 1975. The Institute. 54.
  3. Book: Near East/South Asia Report. 1984. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 147.
  4. Book: Link. 1977. United India Periodicals. 15.
  5. Book: P. P. Bhargava. Trade Union Dynamism. 1995. Printwell. 67.
  6. Book: Democratic World. 1981. Gulab Singh & Sons. 13.
  7. Book: Trade Union Record. 1987. All-India Trade Union Congress.
  8. Book: The Working Class. 1989. Centre of Indian Trade Unions. 8.
  9. Book: G. L. Gaur. Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations. 1986. Deep & Deep Publications. 210.
  10. Book: B. B. Goswami. Jayanta Sarkar. Ethnicity, Politics, and Political Systems in Tribal India. 1997. Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Culture, Government of India. 978-81-85579-38-2. 146.
  11. Book: Asian Recorder. 1986. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 19028.
  12. Book: Data India. 1997. Press Institute of India. 513.