Ajoy Kumar Ghosh | |
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| General Secretary ofCommunist Party of India | |
| In office 1951–1962 | |
| Preceded by | Chandra Rajeswara Rao |
| Succeeded by | E. M. S. Namboodiripad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1909-02-20)20 February 1909 Mihijam,Bengal Presidency,British India |
| Died | 13 January 1962(1962-01-13) (aged 52) |
| Political party | Communist Party of India |
| Occupation | |
Ajoy Kumar Ghosh (20 February 1909–13 January 1962[1]) was anIndian freedom fighter andprominent leader of theCommunist Party of India. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1954 to 1962.[2]
Ghosh was born in Mihijam village ofBardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.[3] He went with his father Doctor Shachindranath Ghosh toKanpur.[4]
In 1926, before enteringAllahabad University, Ghosh metBhagat Singh andBatukeshwar Dutt. He was a member ofHindustan Socialist Republican Association. He was arrested and later imprisoned afterLahore Conspiracy Case trial in 1929 but released due to lack of evidence. He was again arrested in 1931 and came into contact with Srinivas Sardeshai inprison. After release, he joined in theCommunist Party of India.[4] In 1934, he was elected to the Central Committee of theCPI and in 1936 he was elected to its Polit Bureau. In 1938, Ghosh became the member of the editorial board of the Party's mouthpiece, theNational Front. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1951 till his death in 1962. He was leading the Communist Party of India during theChina-India war in 1962.[5][6] He was the prominent person in the centrist faction before thesplit of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist) from theCommunist Party of India.[3]
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| Preceded by | General Secretary ofCommunist Party of India 1951–1954 | Succeeded by |
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