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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Yagya Dutt Sharma''', often known as '''YD''', was an [[India]]n [[trade union]]ist and politician belonging to the [[Communist Party of India]]. <br />
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Sharma was born March 1, 1918, in Jakhauli village, [[Rohtak District]].<ref name=a/> He shifted to Delhi in 1930, and seven year later he graduated from [[Shri Ram College of Commerce]].<ref name=a/> During his student year he was active in the [[All India Students Federation]].<ref name=a/> He went on to finish his postgraduate studies in Economics at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]].<ref name=a/> He worked as a lecturer at [[Ramjas College]].<ref name=a/> In 1939 he became a CPI member.<ref name=a/> He was one of the founders of the Delhi unit of the party in 1944, and went on to become a [[Central Committee]] member of CPI in 1951.<ref name=a/><ref>''Mainstream Weekly''. ''[https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1036.html Birth and Growth of Communist Party in Delhi]''</ref><ref name="Congress2005">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India. Congress|title=Documents of the ... Congress of the Communist Party of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kFAdAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=The Party|page=2}}</ref> He spent the period of 1948-1950 underground.<ref name=a/> Sharma attended the 1952 [[Peking]] [[Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference]] as an observer.<ref name="Windmiller2011">{{cite book|author=Marshall Windmiller|title=Communism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA573|year=2011|publisher=University of California Press|page=573|id=GGKEY:NSY99CAKNFU}}</ref><br />
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In 1973 he became the secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]], later becoming its vice president.<ref name=a/><br />
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Sharma died on January 11, 2004.<ref name=a>''The Tribune''. ''[https://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040113/nation.htm#1 Trade unionist Y.D. Sharma dead]''</ref><br />
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[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from Haryana]]</div>->Arjun Madathiparambil Muraleedharan