H. K. Vyas

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Hari Krishna Vyas (born 11 August 1922, date of death unknown) was an Indian politician.

Vyas was born on 11 August 1922. [1] As of the 1940s, Vyas was a student movement leader, active in the All India Students Federation. [2] He served as the president of the C.P. and Berar Trade Union Congress 1948–1949. [1] As of the 1950s and 1960s Vyas was the Rajasthan state secretary of Communist Party of India. [3] [4] Vyas contested the Jodhpur City "B" seat in the 1951 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, receiving 4.7% of the votes. [4] In a subsequent bye-election in 1952, he won the Jodhpur City "B" seat with 27.9% of the votes. [4] He thus became the sole communist member of the first Rajasthan legislature. [5] In 1953 he became a member of the CPI National Council. [1] [5] Around the late 1950s Vyas and V.V. Joshi founded Red Flag trade unions in the National Engineering Industries and Man Industries Corporation. [6] He lost the Jodhpur City II seat in the 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, coming in second place with 4,463 votes (20.94%). [7] In 1962 he became the Vice President of the Indian Association for Afro-Asian Solidarity. [1]

When the CPI split in 1964, Vyas remained in the party. [6] As the rival Communist Party of India (Marxist) had seized most of the trade union structures of CPI in Rajasthan, a new All India Trade Union Congress Rajasthan State Committee was formed in 1965 with Vyas as its secretary. [1] [6]

In 1973 Vyas was appointed as the editor of the daily newspaper Janyug. [1] [8] [9] He was also in charge of managing the People's Publishing House. [2]

Vyas was the sole CPI candidate in Rajasthan in the 1980 Indian general election. [10] He contested the Ajmer seat, and came in third place with 51,524 votes (13.79%). [11]

In the 1980s Vyas emerged as a critic of the party leadership and a defender of the S.A. Dange line. [12] Whilst Dange himself left CPI to form the All India Communist Party, Vyas and Mohit Sen remained in CPI and sought to uphold the Dange line within the party. [12] Vyas was removed from the CPI National Council at the 13th party congress in 1986. [13] He returned to CPI and became its State secretary. [14] Vyas died prior to July 2002. [15] [16]

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  12. 1 2 Pakistan & Gulf Economist. Economist Publications. 1986. p. 60.
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