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"An outstanding example of a Communist party worker"

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Subodh Roy was a lifelong revolutionary, says Karat

KOLKATA: Subodh Roy, the Communist leader who died recently, was an "outstanding example of how a Communist party worker should work," according to CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat.

Speaking at a memorial meeting here on Thursday, Mr. Karat said Roy "devoted his entire life to the cause of the revolutionary and Communist movement" and went into "meticulous detail to discharge whatever responsibility was entrusted to him."

Roy, who passed away on August 26 at the age of 91, had been part of the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. He was deported to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands when he was in his teens. He joined the Communist movement in 1940.

"An exceptional Communist" and "a lifelong revolutionary," Roy was also the "chronicler of the Communist movement in India" as he had conducted extensive research in the National Archives in New Delhi to "gather, arrange and chronicle the important periods in the history of the Communist party," Mr. Karat said. "He worked round the clock and was the fixed point of reference at the party office."

He said the first of the two volumes on the Comintern's association with India, based on Roy's research in the archives of the Communist Party of Soviet Union in 1984, would be released soon.

Jyoti Basu, veteran Communist leader, said that apart from the Gandhian method of non-violence, the contribution of armed revolutionaries such as Roy to the freedom struggle should also be appreciated.

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