Statement from REPAK for Sharmistha Choudhury: "We lost a female freedom fighter, a leader, a comrade, a sister"

CPI (ML) Red Star Leader Sharmistha Choudhury died on Sunday due to post-COVID complications. Kurdish Women’s Relations Office (REPAK) released a statement to express their sincere condolences to her family, friends, and comrades. “We will miss her profound analyses, her bright ideas, her way of solving problems, and her deep sense of community,” the statement says.

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  • Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021, 14:37

News Center - The Communist Party of India Red Star (CPI (ML) Red Star) Leader Sharmistha Choudhury was announced to die on Sunday due to post COVID complications. Kurdish Women’s Relations Office (REPAK) released a statement to express their sincere condolences to her family, friends, and comrades. “We lost a female freedom fighter, a leader, a comrade, a sister,” Kurdish women said in the statement.

The statement released by the REPAK is as follows;

“We learned with great sadness of the death of our sister and comrade Sharmistha Choudhury. We express our most sincere condolences to her family, her friends, and her comrades,” the statement says.

As Kurdish Women’s Movement, we met Sharmistha in the process of the 2nd World Women’s Conference of Grassroots Women, which has taken place in March 2016 in Kathmandu. We worked together in the preparation process of the International Theoretical Seminar on the Liberation of Women, which the World Women’s Conference has organised in December 2018 in Bangalore. During and after the seminar we had deep and meaningful discussions about the liberation movements in Kurdistan and in India and especially the situation and struggle of women. 

We have come to know Sharmistha as a female pioneer, a political and community leader. As a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star and a leader of its women’s wing All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization (AIRWO), Sharmistha was playing a significant role in both, the theoretical-ideological-political and practical struggle for a truly free society in India. She was not aloof but modest and committed to the direct struggle on the ground. Therefore she was arrested when organizing the people in Bhangar against forceful land grab. 

We lost a female freedom fighter, a leader, a comrade, a sister. We will miss her profound analyses, her bright ideas, her way of solving problems, and her deep sense of community. In memory of Sharmistha we will strengthen the ties between freedom-seeking women in Kurdistan and India and build permanent bridges of common struggle in defense of dignity, life, earth, freedom, and justice.”