Harkishan Singh Surjeet

Harkishan Singh Surjeet
	; Harkishan Singh Surjeet en 2003
Información personal
Nacimiento	23 de marzo de 1916; Jalandhar (Raj británico)
Fallecimiento	1 de agosto de 2008 (92 años); Noida (India)
Causa de muerte	Insuficiencia cardíaca
Nacionalidad	India (desde 1950)
Información profesional
Ocupación	Político
Cargos ocupados	Miembro del Rajya Sabha
Partido político	Partido Comunista de la India (Marxista)

Harkishan Singh Surjeet (Jalandhar, 23 de marzo de 1916 – 1 de agosto de 2008) era un líder comunista de la India. Surjeet era originario de Punjab. Llegó a ser secretario general del Partido Comunista de la India (Marxista) entre 1992 y 2005. Fue uno de nueve miembros del primer politburó del PCI(M), fundado en 1964.^[1]

Alunque llevó un turbante sije a lo largo de toda su vida, Surjeet era ateo.^[2]

Fuentes

↑ "Nine to none, founders’ era ends in CPM", The Telegraph (Calcutta), April 3, 2008.
↑ "Surjeet, who always sported a white turban, was also passionately opposed to the Sikh separatist campaign that bled Punjab for a decade until 1993. He led a spartan lifestyle and always wore simple, even crumpled clothes." M.R. Narayan Swamy and Monobina Gupta, Indo-Asian News Service: 'Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmaker', Hindustan Times, 1 August 2008 (accessed 1 August 2008).

Wikimedia Commons alberga una galería multimedia sobre Harkishan Singh Surjeet.

Datos: Q562179
Multimedia: Harkishan Singh Surjeet / Q562179

[Nine-1] "Nine to none, founders’ era ends in CPM", The Telegraph (Calcutta), April 3, 2008.

[IASN_HT_2008-2] "Surjeet, who always sported a white turban, was also passionately opposed to the Sikh separatist campaign that bled Punjab for a decade until 1993. He led a spartan lifestyle and always wore simple, even crumpled clothes." M.R. Narayan Swamy and Monobina Gupta, Indo-Asian News Service: 'Harkishan Singh Surjeet - nationalist to Communist and then kingmaker', Hindustan Times, 1 August 2008 (accessed 1 August 2008).

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