Veteran Communist leader Noorul Huda passes away

Veteran CPI(M) leader Noorul Huda today passed away in Kolkata due to old age related ailments. He was 85.
His wife had passed away few years back and he had no children.
"He was suffering from old age related illness. He passed away in a private hospital today," a CPI(M) leader said.
The CPI(M) Politburo in a statement expressed its condolences.
Huda joined the Communist Party in 1949 as a student activist in Kolkata. He gave up his job as Engineer and shifted to Silchar, Assam in 1966 and started working with the Kisan Sabha and Communist Party.
Noorul Huda became a member of the Assam state committee of the CPI(M) in 1970 and state secretariat in 1978. He was elected to the party's Central Committee in 1985 at the 12th Party Congress and continued as Central Committee member till the 20th Congress in 2012.

He was jailed number of times and spent two years and eight months in jail.
Noorul Huda was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1973 from Silchar constituency and a Member of Legislative Assembly in Assam for one term.