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'''R.N. Upadhyaya''' was an [[India]]n politician and trade unionist. He joined the [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Army]] in 1938.<ref name=librn/> In 1940 he became a member of the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]].<ref name=librn/> He participated in the August 1942 [[Quit India movement]].<ref name=librn/> He was jailed for his role in the independence struggle, and was released in 1946. He joined the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1952.<ref name=librn/>

During the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India]], he sided with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref name=librn/> When CPI(M) was subsequently divided, he belonged to the group that supported the [[Naxalbari uprising]] and was expelled from CPI(M) mid-1967.<ref>''The Anvil''. ''[http://anvilmag.in/archives/64 Naxalbari and Subsequent Four Decades: A Retrospection]''</ref> He joined the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]].<ref name=librn/> He was a delegate, representing [[Uttar Pradesh]], at the 1970 party congress of CPI(ML).<ref name=librn/> He took part in organizing the CPI(ML) Uttar Pradesh State Conference in [[Muzaffarnagar]], at which [[Charu Majumdar]] participated.<ref name=librn/> Within he shared the positions of [[Satyanarayan Singh (Bihar politician, died 1984)|Satya Narayan Singh]] who opposed Majumdar's dominance over the party.<ref name="Banerjee1984">{{cite book|author=Sumanta Banerjee|title=India's Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRgeAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=978-0-86232-037-9|page=155}}</ref>

Upadhyaya was an active trade unionist.<ref name=librn/> He led a strike of cigarette factory workers in [[Saharanpur]] in 1973.<ref name=librn/> Following the strike he was imprisoned for six months.<ref name=librn/> He worked with the trade union at Mansurpur Sugar Factory.<ref name=librn/> As CPI(ML) collapsed in the 1970s, Upadhyaya rejoined CPI.<ref name=librn/> The 1981 conference of the Uttar Pradesh Trade Union Council (of [[AITUC]]) elected Upadhyaya as one of its vice presidents.<ref>{{cite book|title=Trade Union Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HDtAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=All-India Trade Union Congress|page=54}}</ref>

In 1997 he joined the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]], and became the Uttar Pradesh President of the [[All India Central Council of Trade Unions]].<ref name=librn/><ref>{{cite book|title=Liberation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_PhWAAAAYAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Nimai Ghose|page=32}}</ref>

Upadhyaya died on November 18, 2003 at PGI Hospital in [[Lucknow]].<ref name=librn>''Liberation''. ''[http://archive.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2003/December/Tributes.htm Obituary]''</ref>

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