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About Gangadhar Appa Burande
- Gangadhar Appa Burande (Marathi: ?????? ????? ???????, 29 December 1919 in Moha – 1 October 2008) was an Indian politician. He was born in Moha village in the Marathwada region, and went to school in Ambajogai, Nanded and Hyderabad.
- During his student days in Hyderabad, he became involved in the leftist movement and joined the All India Students Federation.
- In 1942 he became a member of the Communist Party of India.
- He was one of the pioneers of establishing and building the Communist Party in Marathwada, and an activist in the anti-Nizam struggle.
- For a period he was jailed.Following Independence, he organized the All India Kisan Sabha (Peasants' Union) in Beed District.
- He served as sarpanch of Moha between 1956-1974.
- In 1960 he founded the organization Maharashtra Shikshan Sanstha, which offers schooling and housing for students from poor backgrounds.
- He was again jailed between 1962-1966.
- For a brief period, he was a representative in the Beed Zilla Parishad.When the Communist Party was divided in 1964, Burande sided with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- He became the Secretary of the Beed District Committee of CPI(M), and a member of the Maharashtra State Committee of the party.
- In 1969, he was elected vice-president of the Maharashtra State Committee of the CPI(M)-led Kisan Sabha.During the Emergency, Burande was jailed again.
- He was imprisoned in 1975, and released in 1977.
- In the 1977 general election he was elected to the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) from Beed.
- Burande got 197,497 votes (57.56%), defeating the Congress (I) candidate Laxman Shankarao Deshmukh.In 1982 he became a member of the Maharashtra State Secretariat of CPI(M).
- In 1986 he was elected president of the Kisan Sabha in Maharashtra, and was one of the representatives of Maharashtra in the Central Kisan Committee (the national leadership of AIKS).
- In the 1990s, he stepped down from the CPI(M) State Secretariat, and instead took over as the first chairman of the State Control Commission of the party.
- At the 2004 state conference of the Kisan Sabha, he was elected vice-president of the State Committee.
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