Kanu Sanyal
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Kanu Sanyal
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| Born | 1932 |
| Died | 23 March 2010 (aged 77–78) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Leader of CPI (ML) |
Kanu Sanyal, (1932 – March 23, 2010), was an Indian communist politician. In 1967, he was one of the main leaders of the Naxalbari uprising. He was one of the founding leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (CPI (ML)) formed in 1969. [1] He committed suicide on 23 March 2010.
Kanu Sanyal joined Communist politics, first as a member of CPI then CPI(M) and later went on to become a leader of the CPI(ML).
He announced the formation of the original CPI (ML) on Vladimir Lenin's birthday in 1969 at a public rally in Calcutta. He came out with the seminal Terai report on revolution in India, which openly denounced the anarco-nihilist policies of Charu Majumdar and his loyalists.
During this period, the communist-sympathetic media in West Bengal portrayed him as a "great revolutionary", for his genuine 'wealth renunciation and private property'. Sanyal proposed building up of mass people's organisation which would be organising a communistic-socialist revolution on the path shown by Mao Zedong and Chou En Lai in China. Sanyal actively solicited help from the communist regime in neighboring China to further his goals. Sanyal had publicly declared on several occasions that he was receiving some kind of support from the Chinese government. Kanu Sanyal in his authorised biography have confirmed that he received money and guns from China but not much moral support as the Chinese viewed him as a person from lower class.
After the failure of the Naxalite uprising, Sanyal went into hiding. The death of his colleague Charu Majumdar was followed by the breakup of the Naxalite movement, and Sanyal claimed to have abandoned violent means and accepted parliamentary practice as a form of revolutionary activity [2].
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