Overview

• Azizul Haque was moved to an ICU after a fall at his home fractured his hand and died at 2:28 PM on July 21 at a private hospital in Kolkata.
• As a co-founder and leader of the CPI(ML)’s second central committee, Haque sustained parallel revolutionary governments in rural Bengal and Bihar during the late 1970s.
• He spent nearly two decades behind bars after his 1970 arrest in the Parvathipuram case and a 1982 re-arrest that prompted Left Front ministers to appeal for his parole.
• His prison memoir Karagare Atharo Bochor and later essays offered a rare firsthand account of Naxalite ideology and the harsh realities of political imprisonment.
• In later years, Haque distanced himself from hardline insurgency, endorsing CPI(M)’s Singur industrial drive in 2006 and contributing commentary to leading dailies.