<p> Senior CPI-ML (Liberation) leader Swapan Mukherjee, who played a major role in organising the party and its campaigns, died in Chandigarh early today after a heart attack, the Left party said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 63-year old CPI-ML (Liberation) Politburo member passed away at around 4:15 AM at a party colleague's residence in Chandigarh where he had gone for a meeting, the party said in a statement. Mukherjee is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.<br /><br />"Comrade Swapan's loss is an irreparable one - not only for the CPI(ML) but for the entire spectrum of democratic movements. He died as he had lived - active, optimistic, enthusiastic and tireless to the very last," it said.<br /><br />Lauding Mukherjee, who was in charge of CPI-ML (Liberation)'s units in Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Odisha, the party described him as a "brilliant party organiser".<br /><br />Born on November 17, 1953, Mukherjee had studied at Kirorimal College in Delhi University in the early 1970s, when he was inspired by the Naxalbari struggle to join the Marxist-Leninist movement.<br /><br />He was actively involved in party work in Delhi since the time of its reorganisation to the second party Congress held in early 1976.<br /><br />Mukherjee left Delhi for a brief period from mid-1976 to 1978 around the time of the Emergency and its immediate aftermath to "evade the police witch-hunt", the party said.<br /><br />Mukherjee was "active" in civil liberties movement that took shape in the wake of Emergency, besides playing a key role in struggles on national and international issues in Delhi in the 1970s and 1980s - including the initiatives against the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 and protests in support of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance in Vietnam and Africa.<br /><br />Mukherjee also worked in a leading English daily in Delhi while being a member of underground Delhi unit of the party. In 1987, he quit his job to become a full-time organiser.<br /><br />He rose to become a member of party's Central Committee in 1993 and later the Politburo.<br />His body was brought here from Chandigarh today and will be cremated tomorrow afternoon, the party said.</p>
<p> Senior CPI-ML (Liberation) leader Swapan Mukherjee, who played a major role in organising the party and its campaigns, died in Chandigarh early today after a heart attack, the Left party said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 63-year old CPI-ML (Liberation) Politburo member passed away at around 4:15 AM at a party colleague's residence in Chandigarh where he had gone for a meeting, the party said in a statement. Mukherjee is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.<br /><br />"Comrade Swapan's loss is an irreparable one - not only for the CPI(ML) but for the entire spectrum of democratic movements. He died as he had lived - active, optimistic, enthusiastic and tireless to the very last," it said.<br /><br />Lauding Mukherjee, who was in charge of CPI-ML (Liberation)'s units in Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Odisha, the party described him as a "brilliant party organiser".<br /><br />Born on November 17, 1953, Mukherjee had studied at Kirorimal College in Delhi University in the early 1970s, when he was inspired by the Naxalbari struggle to join the Marxist-Leninist movement.<br /><br />He was actively involved in party work in Delhi since the time of its reorganisation to the second party Congress held in early 1976.<br /><br />Mukherjee left Delhi for a brief period from mid-1976 to 1978 around the time of the Emergency and its immediate aftermath to "evade the police witch-hunt", the party said.<br /><br />Mukherjee was "active" in civil liberties movement that took shape in the wake of Emergency, besides playing a key role in struggles on national and international issues in Delhi in the 1970s and 1980s - including the initiatives against the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 and protests in support of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance in Vietnam and Africa.<br /><br />Mukherjee also worked in a leading English daily in Delhi while being a member of underground Delhi unit of the party. In 1987, he quit his job to become a full-time organiser.<br /><br />He rose to become a member of party's Central Committee in 1993 and later the Politburo.<br />His body was brought here from Chandigarh today and will be cremated tomorrow afternoon, the party said.</p>