INDIAN TROTSKYIST TO RUN FOR BIHAR ASSEMBLY
Bombay
The Bihar Organising Committee of the Socialist Workers Party of India has decided to set up Somendra Kumar, a prominent trade-union leader and member of the Central Organising Committee of the SWPI, as a candidate in the elections for the Bihar legislative assembly. He will run in the Samastipur constituency in Darbhanga district.
A practising lawyer, Somendra Kumar is president of the Samastipur Central Sugar Factory Labour Union, vice-president of the Bihar State Electric Supply Workers Union and general secretary of the Rameshwar Jute Mills Labour Union. In addition, he holds offices in the municipal and postal employees unions in the state. He has been actively associated with the working-class movement of Bihar for more than 25 years.
R.K.Lall, secretary of the State Organising Committee of the SWPI has addressed letters to the state units of all left parties, including the Praja Socialist Party, Samyukta Socialist Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India and the Socialist Unity Centre, seeking their support for Kumar's candidacy.
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