Comrade Mahendra Chaudhary, former Central Committee member and former Rajasthan State Secretary of CPI(ML) Liberation, passed away on 11 August 2026 after a prolonged illness. He had been bedridden for nearly two years following a brain stroke.
Inspired by the Naxalbari peasant uprising, Comrade Mahendra joined the communist movement during his student days in the 1970s. He went to the countryside and began working among peasants in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan.
Comrade Srilata Swaminathan and Comrade Mahendra Chaudhary worked together as a team under the banner of UCCR(ML) until the 1980s. They subsequently joined CPI(ML) following the party’s successful intervention in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections and the massive mobilisation in Delhi on 8 October 1990. From then on, Comrade Mahendra successfully carried out all responsibilities in the party for as long as his health permitted.
Comrade Mahendra served as the Rajasthan State Secretary for nearly three decades. He also worked extensively among tribal communities in the regions of Pratapgarh and Salumbar in South Rajasthan.
We mourn his passing with deep sorrow and pay our revolutionary respects to a comrade who devoted his life to the communist movement. We pledge to carry forward his dream of a socialist society through a determined struggle against the present fascist regime.
