![]() ![]() Although he sported a Sikh turban, throughout his life, Surjeet remained an atheist. When India became independent and partitioned in 1947, Surjeet was the Secretary of CPI in Punjab. During the War, Surjeet was imprisoned by the colonial authorities. In the pre-war years he started publishing Dukhi Duniya and Chingari. He was a co-founder of the Kisan Sabha (Farmer's Union) in Punjab. 1936, Surjeet joined the Communist Party of India. He started his political career in the national liberation movement in his early teens, as a follower of the revolutionary socialist Bhagat Singh and in 1930 joined his Naujawan Bharat Sabha. Harkishan Singh Surjeet was born in 1916 in a Sikh Jat family in the village of Bundala, Jalandhar district of Punjab. Harkishan Singh Surjeet was an Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the party's Political Bureau from 1964 to 2008. ![]()
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