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Abdul Sattar Ranjoor (born 12 October 1917, dead 23 March 1990) was a Kashmiri politician. He was a veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI). Ranjoor was the founding state secretary of the party in Jammu and Kashmir.〔〔''Early Times Plus''. ''(CPI pays tributes to Com Ranjoor on death anniversary )''〕 He served as a National Council member of the party. ==Biography== Ranjoor was born on 12 October 1917 in Kegem Shopian. He took part in the struggle against British colonial rule. He was active in the Ahmadi movement between 1934 and 1937. In 1939 he joined the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.〔 Ranjoor also played an important role in building up the peasant movement in the Kashmir valley.〔 He was jailed in 1942 for his role in the peasant movement.〔 He was accused in the Pulwama Conspiracy Case, and went underground for over a year during the Quit Kashmir movement.〔 Ranjoor was also a noted Urdu poet.〔〔 Whilst living in Lahore for a couple of years, he had been close to the renowned poet Sir Muhammad Iqbal.〔''New Age Weekly''. ''(In Memory of Com Ranjoor )''〕 In 1949 he left the National Conference, and founded the underground Communist Party organisation in Kashmir.〔 He was arrested in 1951. In 1953 he became vice president of the Democratic Youth League. In 1957 he joined the Democratic National Conference. In 1962 he became the vice president of the Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Sabha.〔 Ranjoor contested the 1962 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, standing as a Democratic National Conference candidate in the Rajpora seat. According to the official report, he finished in second place but obtained merely 188 votes (0.8% of the votes in the constituency).〔Election Commission of India. ''(STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR )''〕 However this election became infamous for fraud and massive rigging by the ruling party. In 1966 he became the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Sabha. He also became the Organising Secretary of CPI in Jammu and Kashmir in the same year. He served as the editor of ''Hamara Kashmir'' ('Our Kashmir').〔 He contested the Shopian seat in the 1967 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, standing as a CPI candidate. He finished in third place with 2,807 votes (16.93% of the votes in the constituency).〔Election Commission of India. ''(STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR )''〕 He again stood as a candidate in Shopian in the 1972 election, finishing in third place again but increasing his result to 5,160 votes (25.87%).〔Election Commission of India. ''(STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1972 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR )''〕 In his later years Ranjoor withdrew from active politics due to old age. On 23 March 1990 militants barged into his house in Kegem Shopian. Ranjoor was shot and died instantly.〔〔〔 He was 73 years old at the time of his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Sattar Ranjoor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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