Jharkhande Rai was an India

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n Communist politician. He was an eminent leader and one of the pillars of the Communist Party of India

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 in Purvanchal

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, Uttar Pradesh

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 He was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin

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 family. He was elected to the 4th Lok Sabha

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, 5th Lok Sabha

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 and 7th Lok Sabha

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 in 1967, 1971 and 1980 from Ghosi constituency

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. He held the seat till he died in 1984. Till the late 1980s, the communist movement in eastern U.P. was a major force to reckon with. It drew wide support from a largely agrarian society, in which neither religion nor caste was a factor and the legendary Jharkhande Rai represented the aspirations of the toiling masses.