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...