Bhaskar Jadhav dead

Bhaskarrao hailing from Sinnar in neighbouring Nashik district, was born on June 5, 1933. After completing his secondary education from a Nashik school, he joined Siddhartha College in Mumbai in 1952. Returned to Ahmednagar, he later devoted himself to the trade union movement, and later joined the LNP, a Leninist Communist Party outfit.

A candid Communist hard-liner, he worked for the workers in the rural areas. Associated with various agitations and labour movement, he was the general secretary of Kotwal Parishad in Maharashtra over the years and also headed the union of Ahmednagar Municipal Council employees.

He also was the founder editor of Shramik Vichar, an erstwhile Marathi daily, the only of its kind dedicated to the cause of trade unions, workers and unorganised sector in rural areas.

Bhaskarrao was instrumental in knitting a union network building and construction and irrigation departments and at various zilla parishads both in western Maharastra and Marathwada.

His contribution for amelioration in the service conditions of civil and municipal workers was outstanding.