Senior most leader of the left movement in Bengal and one of the senior most surviving in the country veteran All India Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh died on Thursday. He was 94 and was a bachelor who lived in a commune.
Ghosh who was a freedom fighter who subsequently became the Bengal State secretary of Bloc had the rare distinction of working with the likes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Ghosh had for years worked alongside the leftist veterans like Jyoti Basu, Pramode Dasgupta, HS Surjeet was instrumental in the formation of the left Front as it is now and has been a veteran of many a mass movement including the food movement and Emergency movement. He will be cremated Sunday.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who enjoyed a cordial relation with Ghosh tweeted she was “shocked at his death,” while CPI(M) State secretary Surya Kanta Mishra said “the country lost a leftist veteran of many years and the void he left will never be filled.”