Kumbam : Veteran CPI(M) leader Abdul Wahab has died at his residence in Tamil Nadu's Kumbam on Tuesday. He was 96.
Wahab was member of CPI(M)’s State Committee in Tamil Nadu. He has served as General Manager to news paper “Theekathir” and was also part of the 5-member District Committee in Idukki.
Wahab played crucial role in organizing workers’ unions and paving inroads for the party, in Idukki district and Perumada taluk.
In 1952, while Wahab was engaged in party activism, the Thirucochin govt had gunned down two plantation workers. Following this, Wahab was on the forefront of protests, mobilizing workers to agitate against the plantation owners’ goons and police there.
Wahab was also figured prominently in the 1961 AKG-led Amravati satyagraha, against govt eviction of over 1,600 people from their lands for a project.
