Senior CPI-M leader Shridhar Deshpande dies at 82
Nashik, April 3
Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Shridhar Deshpande died of a brief illness in Maharashtra’s Nashik city on Saturday, family sources said.
Deshpande, 82, breathed his last at a private hospital and his last rites were performed in the afternoon, they said.
He is survived by his wife, son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
Deshpande was the president of the district unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and worked as the CPI-M’s city unit secretary.
He led the struggle of depositors from banks and co-operative credit societies in the district.
He also participated in farmers’ and workers’ movement. PTI
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