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By S N Sahu Sunil Gupta displayed rare heroism in life in harnessing his academic insights and human capabilities for positive and constructive social change. He passed away at the age of 54 in which people look forward to lead a happy and prosperous life. It is no age to die. His life has been snatched away from us by unforeseen ailments which caused serious damage to his brain. He combined the excellence of a great human being with the excellence of a very bright student. He proved his worth as an authentic Gandhian constructive rebel for transforming society so that the last person is empowered and great ideals become realities. A shining example of a dedicated activist he was the personification of exacting standards of simplicity in face of exuberance of materialistic appetite and stood for basic values of our civilization. I recall Sunilbhai in Kurta and Pyzama in JNU campus displaying rare dignity and poise of a composed human being with an iron will for peaceful social ...

Sunil Gupta convinced you that politics and idealism can go together. By: Yogendra Yadav Sunilji is no more. His sudden departure was unlikely to make headlines, even if it was not in the middle of election frenzy. He was not a celebrity (and was happy not to be one), but he was clearly one of the few leaders worth celebrating in our public life. If you met him even fleetingly, Sunilji, or Sunil bhai as he came to be called, could convince you that idealism and politics could go together. He inspired scores of young Indians to take to public life. I was one of them. He was a few years senior to me at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he came after having studied in Hindi-medium at Rampur, a small town in Madhya Pradesh. Tales of his brilliance and “A plus” grades still do the rounds at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (the name for the economics department at JNU). Satish Jain, his teacher, told me yesterday that as a first-semester student, Sunil had spotted a serio...

Press Release Samajwadi Janparishad New delhi 22 April Shri Sunil , General Secretary of Samajwadi Janaparishad and Editor of Samayik Varta breathed his last on 21st April 2014 of a massive brain hamemmorhage. He was a top-notch scholar of Economics, toping his MA. & M.Phil in JNU. Rather than perusing a brilliant academic career he opted to work amongst the Adivasis in Kesla, distt. Hoshangabad of M.P. Along with Sathi Rajnarayan he organized a march from Kesla to Bhopal in which actoivists of Samta Sangthan (of which he was a founder member) the right to clean drinking water in 1983. The success of this venture led to the founding of Kisan Adivasi Samgathan from the right to cultivate the banks of Tawa reservoir by displaced persons to a co-oparative- Tawa Matsya Sahkari Samgh (TMSS) which became a model for other like minded people in the country. He had an indefatigable desire for work and faculties that allowed him to walk 20 Kilometers in the forest around Kesala ...

Sunilbhai photo:Samarendra Tuesday 22nd April- On Monday night the world lost a brilliant and dedicated political activist, people’s movement leader and socialist thinker. Sunil Gupta, better known as Sunilbhai was the general secretary of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad (the Socialist People’s Council), a political party founded by the deeply respected socialist Kishen Pattnayak, and dedicated to supporting people’s struggles across India. As a political activist and people’s economist Sunil succeeded in sustaining the movement of the Adivasis, Dalits and other oppressed caste people’s movement for 32 years from 1984 till his untimely death in 2014. Sunilbhai trained as an Economist from Jawaharlal Nehru University, but rather than follow a career in the city, settled in the remote Keshla village of Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh in 1984, and organised the locals against oppression under the banner of Kisan Adivasi Sangathan (KAS). He was associated with Samata Yuba Jan Sa...

(L-R) Prem Singh, Sunil, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant  Bhushan at a press conference in New Delhi  on 26 February 2009- Courtasy: TwoCircles New Delhi,22 Apr, 2014:Aam Aadmi Party condoles the passing away of Shri Sunil, a leading socialist leader,intellectual and general secretary of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad. He took his last breath at the AIIMS, New Delhi on Monday night and was cremated in Indore on Tuesday. For the last three decades, Sunil ji led the tribal movement in Madhya Pradesh and was in involved in setting up of cooperatives for fish workers, particularly among displaced aadivasis. He was also the editor of Samayik Varta, a leading voice of people’s movement in the country. With his passing away the country has lost a major voice of the aam aadmi. The AAP salutes his idealism and his struggles and conveys its deepest condolences to the grieving family. Party leader Yogendra Yadav attended the cremation on behalf of the AAP. Courtesy: Aam Aadmi Par...

Photo Courtesy: Gopal Rathi He was a fighter, leader of peoples movements. he never compromised on ideology he led prestigeous adivasi struggle in Kesla Madhya pradesh and adivasis has got fishing right in Tawa dam in Narmada river and also led farmers movements in various part of the country. he was the founder of Kisan Adivasi Sanghatan and samajwadi jana parishad. he was very simple and very humane to the heart. He was only 54.He was taken to hospital due to massive brain haemorage last week and later moved to AIIMS Delhi there he died yesterday. He was the gold medalist student in economics in JNU.Later he gave up his doctoral studies in economics for organizing tribals and farmers and settled in remote village,Kesla in M.P. HE led a cycle rally in north east against himalyan car rally while he was a student leader. He was very activein struggle for neighbour hood school system. recently he was arrested in connection with anti liqour struggle in MP. Once Yogendra yadhav when ...

New Delhi,22 Apr, 2014: Sunil Gupta, the national general secretary of the Samajwadi Jana Parishad, who was popularly known as Sunil Bhai, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi at 11.30 p.m. on Monday 21 Apr, 2014. His funeral rites were held at the Lodhi Road crematorium on Tuesday. Sunil, 54, is survived by his wife Smita and children Iqbal Abhimanyu and Shiuli Vanja. A mentor to several socialists, most prominently Yogendra Yadav of the Aam Aadmi Party, Sunil led several movements in Central India ever since he began work here with former union minister George Fernandes' Lohia Manch in Hoshangabad's Kesla in 1984. Born in Mandsaur's Rampura, Sunil's politicial roots are in the Samata Yuvajan Sabha in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he did an MA in Economics. He rose to prominence leading agitations for rehabilitation of Tawa Dam oustees in 1995 and established India's most successful adivasi fishing cooperative...

साथी सुनील, राष्ट्रीय महामंत्री,समाजवादी जनपरिषद APRIL 19, 2014 -‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ 5:26pm BE COURAGEOUS.WE HAVE TO SURVIVE AND MARCH TOWARDS OUR GOAL. ALL OF US HAVE TO REAFFIRM OUR CONVICTION.PAINFUL LOSS SHOULD NOT DISUADE US AWAY FROM OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR IDEALS. AS SUNILJI IS CONVINCED IN UPHOLDING THE RELEVANCE OF SAMAJWADI JANAPARISHAD, WE ALL HAVE TO REAFFIRM OUR CONVICTION. JOSHY JACOB NATIONAL PRESIDENT , SAMAJWADI JANAPARISHAD aflatoon "Sathi Sunil Bhai of SJP, One of the finest person I know is critically ill.Suffering from Brain Haemorrhage.On life support .Near him, Wishing for his speedy recovery."- Lingaraj , April 20

Sunil (1959-2014) Sunil was the national general secretary of Samajwadi Jan Parishad. Sunil wrote this for a special issue of Janata weekly. The essay is an important statement from one of the leading activist-theorists of the socialist movement (i.e. non-Marxist socialism) which does not simply disavow the marxist legacy but engages with that experience as an essential component of socialist practice. The tussle between capitalism and socialism as alternative visions of human society is not yet over. It is like the old fable of the race between a hare and a tortoise. At times one seems to be the winner. At other times the other seems to be leading. Capitalism is like the hare of the story. It looks fast, impressive and dynamic but after some time it is tired and resting with its own contradictions. In the end, we know, it is the tortoise of socialism which will prevail. But that end is yet to be arrived at. Capitalism looked supreme and unchallengeable in the latter decades ...