Comrade Janardan Harijan, State Committee member of CPI(ML)’s Jharkhand Committee, passed away on 8 October. He was 54. He had recently begun working in the Panch Pargana area, determined to expand the party’s presence there.
Comrade JD was born in a coal workers’ family, and when offered a job in BCCL, he passed it on to his brother instead.
Comrade JD had a special bond with forests, mountains, rivers and nature. He played the mouth organ and the flute, and singing songs he himself had composed. At the recently concluded All India Construction Workers’ Federation conference, he had performed a song. One of his favourite songs was about the hills and nature of Jharkhand’s Rajmahal.
Comrade JD had been a CPI(ML) activist since the 1970s. He organized students in and around Sindri. As a party wholetimer since 1980, he worked in the Dhanbad, Bokaro and Ranchi districts, and also for a while in Giridih and Gandey. He contested as an IPF candidate in Bihar’s Aurangabad district, and had also contested elections from Sindri and Chandankyari. He was a leader of anti-feudal struggles in Parasbaniya and also a leader of Sindri’s Dalit workers. He organized against the Congress-sponsored anti-Sikh communal violence in 1984.
Comrade Janardan Harijan is deeply missed and remembered with great affection by his comrades.
Red Salute to Comrade Janardan Harijan!
