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	He was a Member of [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly\|Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra]] who represented the working-class Mumbai constituency of [[Parel]], then a communist stronghold. Desai was murdered in 1970, and this was preceded by the burning of the office of the CPI-led Girni Kamgar Union. Hansen considers his murder to be the culmination of the [[Shiv Sena]] campaign against the communists. His murder was a sign of a Sena victory in its struggle for the domination of unions and politics in Mumbai's working class district.<ref name="Kaur2005">{{cite book\|author=Ravinder Kaur\|title=Religion, violence, and political mobilisation in South Asia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEMwF7pAm-cC&pg=PA90\|access-date=18 February 2012\|date=5 November 2005\|publisher=SAGE\|isbn=978-0-7619-3431-8\|pages=90–}}</ref><ref name="Hansen2005">{{cite book\|author=Thomas Blom Hansen\|title=Violence in urban India: identity politics, 'Mumbai', and the postcolonial city\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRAj9NnMdYgC&pg=PA63\|access-date=18 February 2012\|year=2005\|publisher=Permanent Black\|isbn=978-81-7824-120-3\|pages=63–}}</ref>		He was a Member of [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly\|Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra]] who represented the working-class Mumbai constituency of [[Parel]], then a communist stronghold. Desai was murdered in 1970, and this was preceded by the burning of the office of the CPI-led Girni Kamgar Union. Hansen considers his murder to be the culmination of the [[Shiv Sena]] campaign against the communists. His murder was a sign of a Sena victory in its struggle for the domination of unions and politics in Mumbai's working class district.<ref name="Kaur2005">{{cite book\|author=Ravinder Kaur\|title=Religion, violence, and political mobilisation in South Asia\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEMwF7pAm-cC&pg=PA90\|access-date=18 February 2012\|date=5 November 2005\|publisher=SAGE\|isbn=978-0-7619-3431-8\|pages=90–}}</ref><ref name="Hansen2005">{{cite book\|author=Thomas Blom Hansen\|title=Violence in urban India: identity politics, 'Mumbai', and the postcolonial city\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRAj9NnMdYgC&pg=PA63\|access-date=18 February 2012\|year=2005\|publisher=Permanent Black\|isbn=978-81-7824-120-3\|pages=63–}}</ref>
	[[File:Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai.png\|thumb\|Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai. June 14, 1970]]		[[File:Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai.png\|thumb\|Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai. June 14, 1970]]
	Desai was stabbed to death on 5 June 1970. He was a sitting [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)\|MLA]] when he was murdered.<ref name="Purandare1999">{{cite book\|author=Vaibhav Purandare\|title=The Sena story\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3WKAAAAMAAJ\|access-date=18 February 2012\|year=1999\|publisher=Business Publications Inc\|isbn=978-81-7693-015-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA204~~&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false~~\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=~~1400835941~~\|pages=204\|language=en}}</ref> Seven suspects were arrested on 8 June 1970. Nineteen young persons were charged and sixteen were convicted for the murder. The accused were defended by [[Ram Jethmalani]]. [[~~Bal~~ Thackeray]]'s complicity in the murder was never proven. Prakash writes that those convicted were members of the Shiv Sena.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA248~~&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false~~\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=~~1400835941~~\|pages=248\|language=en}}</ref> According to Dipankar Gupta, the Shiv Sena chief [[Bal Thackeray]] congratulated those who killed Desai, declaring, "we must not miss a single opportunity to massacre communists wherever we find them."<ref name="Gupta1982">{{cite book \|last=Gupta \|first=Dipankar \|title=Nativism in a Metropolis: The Shiv Sena in Bombay \|url=https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt \|url-access=registration \|publisher=Manohar \|year=1982 \|p=[https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt/page/159 159]}}		Desai was stabbed to death on 5 June 1970. He was a sitting [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)\|MLA]] when he was murdered.<ref name="Purandare1999">{{cite book\|author=Vaibhav Purandare\|title=The Sena story\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3WKAAAAMAAJ\|access-date=18 February 2012\|year=1999\|publisher=Business Publications Inc\|isbn=978-81-7693-015-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA204\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=978-1400835942\|pages=204\|language=en}}</ref> Seven suspects were arrested on 8 June 1970. Nineteen young persons were charged and sixteen were convicted for the murder. The accused were defended by [[Ram Jethmalani]]. [[Balasaheb Thackeray]]'s complicity in the murder was never proven. Prakash writes that those convicted were members of the Shiv Sena.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA248\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=978-1400835942\|pages=248\|language=en}}</ref> According to Dipankar Gupta, the Shiv Sena chief [[Bal Thackeray]] congratulated those who killed Desai, declaring, "we must not miss a single opportunity to massacre communists wherever we find them."<ref name="Gupta1982">{{cite book \|last=Gupta \|first=Dipankar \|title=Nativism in a Metropolis: The Shiv Sena in Bombay \|url=https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt \|url-access=registration \|publisher=Manohar \|year=1982 \|page=[https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt/page/159 159]}}
	</ref><ref name="Hensman2010">{{cite book\|author=Rohini Hensman\|title=Workers, unions, and global capitalism: lessons from India\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euzs5t9AcsgC&pg=PA135\|access-date=18 February 2012\|date=14 November 2010\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|isbn=978-0-231-14800-9\|pages=135–}}		</ref><ref name="Hensman2010">{{cite book\|author=Rohini Hensman\|title=Workers, unions, and global capitalism: lessons from India\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euzs5t9AcsgC&pg=PA135\|access-date=18 February 2012\|date=14 November 2010\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|isbn=978-0-231-14800-9\|pages=135–}}
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	In the special by-election held in October 1970, his wife Sarojini Desai was nominated by the CPI,<ref name=":0" /> but she was defeated by the Shiv Sena candidate [[Wamanrao Mahadik]] by a narrow margin of 1679 votes (of the nearly 62000 votes cast).<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA249~~&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false~~\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=~~1400835941~~\|pages=249\|language=en}}</ref>		In the special by-election held in October 1970, his wife Sarojini Desai was nominated by the CPI,<ref name=":0" /> but she was defeated by the Shiv Sena candidate [[Wamanrao Mahadik]] by a narrow margin of 1679 votes (of the nearly 62000 votes cast).<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA249\|title=Mumbai Fables\|last=Prakash\|first=Gyan\|date=2010-09-20\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=978-1400835942\|pages=249\|language=en}}</ref>

	According to the communists, the then [[Indian National Congress]] government had an interest in weakening and driving out the communists, and so it "supported the incident".<ref name="Rediff-20040423">{{cite web\|url=http://www.rediff.com/election/2004/apr/23espec3.htm\|title=Know your party: Shiv Sena\|last= Ashraf\|first=Syed Firdaus \|date=2004-04-23\|work=rediff ELECTIONS\|publisher=Rediff.com\|access-date=17 June 2012\|location=Mumbai}}</ref>		According to the communists, the then [[Indian National Congress]] government had an interest in weakening and driving out the communists, and so it "supported the incident".<ref name="Rediff-20040423">{{cite web\|url=http://www.rediff.com/election/2004/apr/23espec3.htm\|title=Know your party: Shiv Sena\|last= Ashraf\|first=Syed Firdaus \|date=2004-04-23\|work=rediff ELECTIONS\|publisher=Rediff.com\|access-date=17 June 2012\|location=Mumbai}}</ref>

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[[File:Krishna Desai.jpg|thumb|Statue of Comrade Krishna Desai at Tavari Pavda Lalbaug, Mumbai, India, where he was killed]]
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'''Krishna Desai''' (died 5 June 1970) was a member of the [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI).

He was a Member of [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra]] who represented the working-class Mumbai constituency of [[Parel]], then a communist stronghold. Desai was murdered in 1970, and this was preceded by the burning of the office of the CPI-led Girni Kamgar Union. Hansen considers his murder to be the culmination of the [[Shiv Sena]] campaign against the communists. His murder was a sign of a Sena victory in its struggle for the domination of unions and politics in Mumbai's working class district.<ref name="Kaur2005">{{cite book|author=Ravinder Kaur|title=Religion, violence, and political mobilisation in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEMwF7pAm-cC&pg=PA90|access-date=18 February 2012|date=5 November 2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-7619-3431-8|pages=90–}}</ref><ref name="Hansen2005">{{cite book|author=Thomas Blom Hansen|title=Violence in urban India: identity politics, 'Mumbai', and the postcolonial city|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRAj9NnMdYgC&pg=PA63|access-date=18 February 2012|year=2005|publisher=Permanent Black|isbn=978-81-7824-120-3|pages=63–}}</ref>
[[File:Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai.png|thumb|Funeral Procession for Krishna Desai. June 14, 1970]]
Desai was stabbed to death on 5 June 1970. He was a sitting [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] when he was murdered.<ref name="Purandare1999">{{cite book|author=Vaibhav Purandare|title=The Sena story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3WKAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 February 2012|year=1999|publisher=Business Publications Inc|isbn=978-81-7693-015-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA204&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Mumbai Fables|last=Prakash|first=Gyan|date=2010-09-20|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1400835941|pages=204|language=en}}</ref> Seven suspects were arrested on 8 June 1970. Nineteen young persons were charged and sixteen were convicted for the murder. The accused were defended by [[Ram Jethmalani]]. [[Bal Thackeray]]'s complicity in the murder was never proven. Prakash writes that those convicted were members of the Shiv Sena.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA248&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Mumbai Fables|last=Prakash|first=Gyan|date=2010-09-20|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1400835941|pages=248|language=en}}</ref> According to Dipankar Gupta, the Shiv Sena chief [[Bal Thackeray]] congratulated those who killed Desai, declaring, "we must not miss a single opportunity to massacre communists wherever we find them."<ref name="Gupta1982">{{cite book |last=Gupta |first=Dipankar |title=Nativism in a Metropolis: The Shiv Sena in Bombay |url=https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt |url-access=registration |publisher=Manohar |year=1982 |p=[https://archive.org/details/nativisminmetrop0000gupt/page/159 159]}}
</ref><ref name="Hensman2010">{{cite book|author=Rohini Hensman|title=Workers, unions, and global capitalism: lessons from India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euzs5t9AcsgC&pg=PA135|access-date=18 February 2012|date=14 November 2010|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-14800-9|pages=135–}}
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In the special by-election held in October 1970, his wife Sarojini Desai was nominated by the CPI,<ref name=":0" /> but she was defeated by the Shiv Sena candidate [[Wamanrao Mahadik]] by a narrow margin of 1679 votes (of the nearly 62000 votes cast).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA249&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Mumbai Fables|last=Prakash|first=Gyan|date=2010-09-20|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1400835941|pages=249|language=en}}</ref>

According to the communists, the then [[Indian National Congress]] government had an interest in weakening and driving out the communists, and so it "supported the incident".<ref name="Rediff-20040423">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/election/2004/apr/23espec3.htm|title=Know your party: Shiv Sena|last= Ashraf|first=Syed Firdaus |date=2004-04-23|work=rediff ELECTIONS|publisher=Rediff.com|access-date=17 June 2012|location=Mumbai}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of assassinated Indian politicians]]

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