Chennai: R Umanath, a veteran leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), died yesterday in Trichirapalli in Tamil Nadu.
A member of the CPI-M’s politburo during 1991-2008, Umanath was 92. He also served as a member of the Tamil Nadu state committee for several years.
Umanath joined the undivided Communist Party of India while studying at Annamalai University in 1939. He quit his studies to become a full time party member.
During the Independence struggle, he was convicted in the Madras conspiracy case and imprisoned for two and a half years. Umanath spent a total of nine and a half years in jails.
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