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Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 52, New Delhi, December 12, 2020 Nitai Basu, last ‘comrade’ of Kakdwip battle, is no more | Subhankar Gupta
Friday 11 December 2020
by Subhankar Gupta
Nitai Basu (real name Nityagopal Basu), the last activist of historic peasant struggle of Kakdwip led by the All India Krishak Sabha in West Bengal within a year after India achieved independence passed away on December 6, 2020. AIKS was the peasant front of undivided Communist Party of India. He was 90. After the Tebhaga movement was called off by the WB unit of AIKS and state CPI leadership under compelling circumstances, a large number of peasants landless and marginal peasants, plunged into a battle in all districts of West Bengal excepting Burdwan and West Bengal with the same demands as Tebhaga struggle which was most widespread in Dinajpur, Rangpur and Jalpaiguri districts in pre-partition Bengal. In West Bengal, the thrust of the movement was most intensive in undivided 24 Parga