Press-release
Samajwadi Janparishad
New delhi 22 April
Shri Sunil , General Secy of Samajwadi Janparoishad and Editor of
Samayik Varta breathed his last on 21st April 2014 of a massive
brain hamemmorhage. He was a top-notch scholar of Economics, toping his MA.
& M.Phil in JNU. Rather than perusing a brilliant academic career he opted
to work amongst the Adivasis in Kesla, distt. Hoshangabad of M.P.
Along with Sathi Rajnarayan he organized a march from Kesla to Bhopal
in which actoivists of Samta Sangthan (of which he was a founder member) the
right to clean drinking water in 1983.
The success of this venture led to the founding of Kisan Adivasi
Samgathan from the right to cultivate the banks of Tawa reservoir by displaced
persons to a co-oparative- Tawa Matsya Sahkari Samgh (TMSS) which became a
model for other like minded people in the country.
He had an indefatigable desire for work and faculties that allowed
him to walk 20 Kilometers in the forest around Kesala to organize people and
then write an article at night much after all his group had retired for the
day.
Along with Kisan Adivasi Sangthan and Samajwadi Janparishad he was
active in Jan Sangharsh Morcha, M.P. and National Alliance of Peoples’
Movements (NAPM).
For the last 5 years he was actively involved in the Shiksha Adhikar
Manch (AIFTRE) ALONG WITH Anil Sadgopal and Ramesh Patnaik as one of the
National Convenors.
Nari Jagiriti Manch of Kesla and Itarsi had succefully organized an anti-liquor
movement to stop liquor being sold in their neighbourhood. Sunil was one of the
motivational forces supporting this movement.
He had deeply believed in the involvement and leadership of the marginalised
people as he considered it to be be the backbone of alternative politics. Shining
examples are the TMSS and Samajwadi Janparishad.
Samajwadi Janparishad, formed from amalgamation of other like minded
movements had a program of publishing booklets on economic policy and the
prevalent development model. In 1991 a movement for opposing WTO was launched.
Sunil was at the forefront of this movement for building an alternative model
and lived with his wife Smita , daughter Shiuli and Son Iqbal in Bhoomkapura, an
Adivasi village 20 KMs away from Itarsi,
M.P.
After the demise of Shri Kishan Patnaik, socialist thinker and his
mentor, he donned the former’s mantel of touring the entire country and holding
political dialogue with different peoples’ movements.
In his death we have lost a person who lived his life according to
his ideals. Like Gandhi, he was a person whose entire life was his message.
Activists of Samajwadi Janparishad and other like-minded movements
paid their homage at Lodhi Road Crematorium, chief amongst whom were Justice
Rajinder Sachchar, Anupam Mishr, Prof. Satish Jain, Prof. Arun Kumar, Prof.
Kamal Nayan Kabra, Ms. Manju Mohan, Prof. Rajkumar Jain, Prof Prem Singh, Kalpana
Mehta, Ranjana Padhi and Chanchal Mukherjee.
(Atul Kumar)
President, Samajwadi Janparishad, Delhi Gen.
Secy, Samajwadi Janparishad,
Delhi
No comments:
Post a Comment