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|birth_date     = {{birth date|df=yes|1904|12|19}}

|birth_place     = [[Dadar]], [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay Provinces]], [[British India]]

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|occupation     = Freedom fighter, leader

|title           = General Secretary, [[Communist Party of India]]

|term_start     = 1948

|term_end       = 1950

|predecessor     = [[Puran Chand Joshi]]

|successor       = [[Chandra Rajeswara Rao]]

|party           = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (1964-1990),<br/>[[Communist Party of India]] (before 1964)

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'''Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive''' (19 December 1904 &ndash; 6 April 1990), popularly known as '''BTR''' was an [[India]]n [[communist]] politician and trade union leader.  

[[File:Kerala2006 (12).JPG|thumb|left|170px|BTR memorial in [[Allepey]]]]BTR completed his studies in 1927, obtaining an M.A. degree with distinction. In 1928 he joined the clandestine [[Communist Party of India]]. In the same year he became a major leader of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]] in [[Bombay]]. He was active with the [[Girini Kamgar Union]] of the textile workers in [[Bombay]] and with the struggles of the railway workers. He became the secretary of the GIP Railwaymen’s Union. In 1939, he married Vimal, a trade union activist.

In 1943 he was elected to the central committee of the party. In February 1946 BTR played a major role in organizing a general strike in support of the [[The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny|Naval ratings revolt]].

At its [[Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India|2nd Party Congress]] held in [[Calcutta]] in February, 1948 the party elected BTR in place of [[P.C. Joshi]] as its general secretary.<ref>Chandra, Bipan & others (2000). ''India after Independence 1947-2000'', New Delhi: Penguin, {{ISBN|0-14-027825-7}}, p.204</ref> BTR was the general secretary of CPI 1948-1950. During that period the party was engaged in [[revolutionary]] uprisings, such as the [[Telangana armed struggle]]. In 1950 BTR was deposed, and denounced by the party as a "left adventurist".

[[File:Kerala2006 (2).JPG|thumb|left|BTR Bhavan, Kerala]]At the time of the [[Sino-Indian War|Indo-China border conflict]] in 1962, BTR was one of many prominent communist leaders jailed by the government. In 1964 he became one of the main leaders of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].

At the founding conference of the [[Centre of Indian Trade Unions]] in [[Calcutta]] May 28&ndash;31 1970, BTR was elected president. The central building of [[Centre of Indian Trade Unions|CITU]] in [[New Delhi]] is named after him, ''[[BTR Bhavan]]''.

He was elder brother of [[Ahilya Rangnekar]], a CPI-M leader and 6th Lok Sabha member from [[Mumbai North Central (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. They belonged to a Marathi [[Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu]](CKP) family but BTR, a brilliant student, would teach Dalit students in his spare time. His nephew, [[Vivek Ranadivé]] is also settled in the USA, and is the multimillionaire co-owner of the [[Sacramento Kings]] basketball team.<ref>{{cite magazine|publisher=People's Democracy(weekly)-Vol. XXXIII,No. 16, April 26, 2009|title=Red Salute To Comrade Ahilya|url=https://archives.peoplesdemocracy.in/2009/0426_pd/04262009_4.htm|quote=Ahilya Rangnekar was born in Pune in 1922 in a Chandrasena Kayastha Prabhu family. Her father Trimbak Ranadive was deeply influenced by the social reformers of his times...(she was a trained classical singer, and had a lovely voice which she had often used in street performances to sell the Party paper on Bombay’s streets along with her more well-known brother, the radical communist leader and trade union fighter, B T Ranadive}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=sactown magazine|url=http://www.sactownmag.com/October-November-2013/The-New-King/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1|quote=She strongly believed that Ranadivés had an obligation to fight for social justice because of their caste (the Hindu designation of social rank). The family is Kshatriya—born to be warriors and rulers}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Silicon Valley hotshot scripts NBA plan for India|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/silicon-valley-hotshot-scripts-nba-plan-for-india/articleshow/7080699.cms|quote=Finally, when asked about his memories of his grand uncle, the late Indian communist leader BT Ranadivé, he says laughing, "I know he wanted to make people's lives better, which is what I also want to do, but in a different way."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Breaking Barriers: Stories of Twelve Women |author= Parvati Menon | publisher = LeftWord Books| year= 2004 | page=10 | quote= "My family was from the Chandrasena Kayastha Prabhu community, popularly called the CKP community, from which a large number of the social reformers came." Ahilya recalls an event that took place in Malad, where a big satyagraha was organized against untouchability. "My father, although a government servant, gave this campaign all his support.My brother B.T. Ranadive, who was a brilliant student, used to tutor dalit boys when he was at University,..."}}</ref>

*{{cite web|url=http://www.citu.org.in/btr+.htm |archive-url=http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/20040810162016/http://www.citu.org.in/btr+.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 August 2004 |title=B.T. Ranadive: Life and Teachings by M.K. Pandhe |accessdate=2008-10-18 |df=dmy }}