| Name
/ Title |
DATTA SAMANT |
| Date of
Birth |
November 21, 1932 |
| Date of
Death |
January 16, 1997 |
| Identity |
Indian politician and trade union leader |
| General |
- He was most famous for leading over 2 lakhs textile mill
workers in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) on a year-long
strike in 1982, which triggered the closure of most of the
textile mills in the city.
- Samant was elected on an independent, anti-Congress
ticket to the 8th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian
Parliament in 1984; an election that was otherwise swept by
the Congress under Rajiv Gandhi.
- He would organise the Kamgar Aghadi union, and the Lal
Nishan Party, which brought him close to communism and
Indian communist political parties.
- He remained active in trade unions and communist
politics throughout India in the 1990s.
- On the morning of 16 January 1997 Samant was
gunned down and murdered outside his home in Mumbai by four
gunmen.
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