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{{Short description|Indian revolutionary and politician (1915–1974)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[Comrade]]
| name                = Hare Krishna Konar
| image               = Michil l.jpg
| caption             = Konar in 1963
| office             = [[General Secretary]] of the [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]]
| term_start         = 1968
| term_end           = 1974
| 1blankname         = President
| 1namedata          = [[A. K. Gopalan]]
| preceded           = ''Office established''
| succeeded          = [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]]
| office1             = [[Minister of Land and Land Revenue (West Bengal)|Minister of Land and Land Revenue]], [[Government of West Bengal]]
| term_start1         = 1967
| term_end1           = 1967
| 1blankname1         = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1          = [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]
| preceded1           = ''Office established''
| succeeded1          = [[President's rule]] and Himself ''(as Minister of Land and Land Reforms)''
| office2             = [[Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)|Minister of Land and Land Reforms]], [[Government of West Bengal]]
| term_start2         = 1969
| term_end2           = 1970
| 1blankname2         = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2          = [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]
| preceded2           = [[President's rule]] and Himself ''(as Minister of Land and Land Revenue)''
| succeeded2          = [[Benoy Choudhury]] (1977)
| office3             = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3         = 1957
| term_end3           = 1972
| preceded3           = Baidyanath Sanyal,<br />Rash Behari Sen
| succeeded3          = Nurul Islam Molla
| constituency3       = [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
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| office4             = Member of the [[International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party|Central Committee]]{{Efn|Konar was a member of the [[International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party]], which is headed by a director, and this is the only international committee in [[China]], although this committee is not the actual [[Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]].<ref name=":2" />|name=|group=}} of the [[Chinese Communist Party]]
| term_start4         = 1960
| term_end4           = 1974
| 1blankname4         = Director
| 1namedata4          = [[Wang Jiaxiang]]<br />[[Liu Ningyi]]<br />[[Geng Biao]]
| office5             = Member of the Central Committee{{Efn|Konar was a member of the International Department of the Communist Party of Vietnam, which is headed by the party's [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam|General Secretary]]. This is the only international department under the [[Communist Party of Vietnam]], but this committee is not the actual [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam]].<ref name=":2" />|name=|group=lower-alpha}} of the [[Workers' Party of Vietnam]]
| term_start5         = 1960
| term_end5           = 1974
| 1blankname5         = General Secretary
| 1namedata5          = [[Ho Chi Minh]]<br />[[Lê Duẩn]]
| office6             = Deputy Member of the Administrative Committee of the [[Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers|TUIAFPW]]
| term_start6         = 1970
| term_end6           = 1974
| 1blankname6         = General Secretary
| 1namedata6          = Claude Billault
}}
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1915|8|5|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Kamargoria]] village, [[Burdwan]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br>{{small|(present-day [[Kamargoria]] village, [[Purba Bardhaman district]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]])}}
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1974|7|23|1915|8|5|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| death_cause         = [[Cancer]]{{Efn|Neck cancer caused by consumption of [[Cigar]] and [[Cigarette]].|name=|group=lower-alpha}}
| resting_place    = [[Sahanagar crematorium]]
| party               = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />(1964–1974)<br />[[Communist Party of India]]<br />(1938–1964)
| spouse              = {{marriage|Biva Konar|1940}}
| children            = 3
| relatives           = [[Benoy Krishna Konar]] (brother)
| alma_mater          = [[Bangabasi College]]<br />[[University of Calcutta]]
| signature           = Hare Krishna Konar Signature.png
| nickname            = Kesto{{Efn|In bengali alternative language "কেষ্ট".|name=|group=lower-alpha}}
}}
{{Communism in India}}
{{Anushilan Samiti}}
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'''Hare Krishna Konar''' ({{lang-bn|হরেকৃষ্ণ কোঙার|Harēkr̥ṣṇa kōṅāra}}, {{IPAc-en|audio=En-HareKrishnaKonar.ogg|ˈ|h|ɑː|r|ə|_|ˈ|k|r|ɪ|ʃ|n|ə|_|'|k|ɔː|n|aː|r}}; 5&nbsp;August 1915 – 23&nbsp;July 1974) was an Indian [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[List of Indian independence activists|revolutionary]], a [[charismatic]] [[peasant]] leader and politician. Konar was a founding member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], and the leader to start the first [[Land reform in India|land reforms]] and [[agrarian reforms]] in [[India]] as well as the chief architect of the [[West Bengal]] land redistribution. In the 1930s for making arms and bombs for the [[Jugantar]] group, he was deported to the [[Cellular Jail]] for 6 years at the age of 18 and there he took part in the first [[hunger strike]] and in 1935 he founded the [[Communist Consolidation]] and led the historical second hunger strike.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ganashakti.tripod.com/archive/hkonar.htm|title=Remembrance:konar|website=ganashakti.tripod.com|access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Konar |first=Hare Krishna |url=http://nationalbookagency.com/HarekrishnaKonarPrabandhasangraha.html |title=Prabandhya Sangraha |publisher=National Book Agency Private Ltd |year=2015 |location=Kolkata |pages=534 |language=Bengali |asin=B011ROQ5CO}}</ref>

==Early life (1915–32)==
Hare Krishna Konar was the eldest son of Sarat Chandra Konar and Satyabala Konar, his father and mother lived in [[Kamargoria]] village across the [[Damodar River]], the ancestral home in [[Raina, Bardhaman|Raina]] of [[Bardhaman district]]. Konar was born into an [[Upper middle class]] family on August 5, 1915. His father was a well known businessman as well as a landlord in Kamargoria village. After a certain age he started his primary studies at Kamargoria Prathmik Bidyalay and was a bright student of the school, although he was interested in all the subjects but specially in [[Sanskrit]] he had a great interest, after few years he completed his primary studies from the same school in kamargoria. And in class 5, he shifted to the South Radhakantapur village of [[Memari]] with his parents. His father enrolled his son's name in Memari Vidyasagar Smriti Vidya Mandir School. After shifting to the new village the [[Congress]] leader of burdwan Bibhuti Datta used to visit their house regularly, actually Konar was influenced towards politics by the thoughts he had listed from the Congress leader Bibhuti Babu, In this time a new leader who had recently made his name in Indian Politics named [[Mahatma Gandhi]] had came out with his new idea of [[Ahimsa|Ahimsa Andolan]] and launched his first [[Satyagraha]] movement in 1930, which was going all over the country and were participated by [[teachers]], [[professors]], [[lawyers]], college students and school students but the teachers of Memari Vidyasagar Smriti Vidya Mandir never encouraged their students to the revolutionary activities, they actually tried many ways to maintain distance between movements and the school students. So to attend the [[Satyagraha]] campaigns and the political campaigns of Burdwan Congress, Konar goes to school and in the lunch time he attend the campaigns, he regularly attend the meetings and rallies. So one day a meeting about revolutionary culture was going on konar's father came and grab his hand to take konar back to home but Hare Krishna Konar was clinging to the balcony post in front of the District Congress House, Sarat Konar had a great reputation in the village as he was a wealthy businessman and had a dream to send Konar to [[Oxford University]] for his further studies but Konar had left everythings, his studies, his future, his properties literally everything to get the Britishers rid of the country, so by struggling to take him back home from Burdwan district congress office Sarat Konar said:
{{blockquote|You have to go home, I have arranged to send you to [[Oxford University]], Why are you so hard to leave home? Come home with me.<ref name=":3" />}}
Held the pole tightly Konar replied:
{{blockquote|Father, I will not go, you go back alone.<ref name=":3" />}}
On that day, under the advice of [[Benoy Choudhury]] who was then incharged for the burdwan volunteer camp for the civil disobedience movement, a senior Congress leaders sent Hare Krishna Konar back home. With a bunch of sorrowness Sarat Chandra Konar built a hospital in Memari with all the money he had saved to send Hare Krishna Konar in [[Oxford University]], [[London]], first he gave 1 lakh 20 thousand rupees and later 80 thousand rupees. After few days, while studying in 9th standard at the age of 15 Hare Krishna Konar was arrested for picketing infront of [[Burdwan Raj College]]. Just after releasing from jail again, Konar again ran away from home towards Disobedience movement and were again arrested in April, 1930 for 6 months in Burdwan Jail, In jail he met with [[Benoy Choudhury]] who was also arrested for participating in [[Civil Disobedience Movement]] and they discussed in various topics, In jail he talked with various revolutionaries and was initiated and influenced into the terrorist revolutionary doctrine, this jail period was the most important period of his revolutionary career, he learned that there are 3 streams of political movement in our country at this time—

(1) National Liberation Movement initiated by Congress

(2) Terrorist revolutionary movement

(3) Communist movement

All these 3 movements influenced Konar's life. The lives of many terrorist revolutionaries of the 1930s, who decided to take the path of Communism, marched with devotion and single mindedness in front of the goal of ending all forms of exploitation and oppression forever by judging the interests of workers, peasants and hardworking people. Hare Krishna Konar came from within these change movements based on practical experience. So After released from prison, Konar moved forward with the mindset of making Terrorist revolutionary movement by giving up the process of nonviolent, he moved towards the armed struggle and showed particular skill in creating revolutionary groups in and around Memari. It was during this time that [[Bhupendranath Dutta]] and Comrade [[Bankim Mukherjee]] were introduced to the revolutionary group in Burdwan. Under Dutta and Mukherjee's influence Burdwan revolutionary group got the supply of various [[Marxist]] books along with the news about the case which appeared in the newspapers article about [[Meerut Conspiracy Case]]. Hare Krishna Konar started his political activities as an active member of [[Jugantar]] revolutionary party in our country's freedom struggle against British [[Imperialism]]. As a political activist, his beginning was from involvement in various activities of the revolutionary movement of [[Jugantar]]. As we all know, ''Life is a Struggle for Revolutionaries''. While still a student, Konar gave his life along with others to create a new tide in the freedom struggle of the country through the death struggle against [[British imperialism]]. On the other hand, Konar passed his 10th standard with a excellent result of first division in all subjects and letter in [[Sanskrit]] subject from Memari Vidyasagar Smriti Vidya Mandir, then he gone to [[Calcutta]] and taken admission in first year as a science student of [[Bangabasi College]]. He used to stayed in Canning Hostel of Scott Lane and was in contact with [[Benoy Choudhury]] and [[Saroj Mukherjee]] of Burdwan terrorist revolutionary movement and joined the Calcutta terrorist revolutionary movement. After a few days, the party's funds reached almost zero, and there was a special need for money. One of Konar's friends was Bipadbaran Roy, whose house was in Calcutta but who also used to stay in hostels. So, one afternoon, Bipadbaran Roy's uncle, who was a government employee, came with 10 thousand rupees and kept it in his house, so it was decided that they would rob that money and use it to make bombs. So Bipadbaran, Konar, and a few others went to the house and took all the money, along with some extra gold and cash, and used it to make bombs and arms in their Calcutta terrorist revolutionary movement. But then also, the full amount of money can't be arranged, so in the house of Memari Konar, he broke his father’s chest to collect the remaining money, which he wanted for the organization. In [[Calcutta]], [[Bangabasi College]] was then the center of revolutionary students who were directly associated with [[Anushilan Samiti]] or [[Jugantar]]. Then it was 1931, when the armed struggle revolution was at its peak. In the month of February, [[Anushilan Samiti]]'s allies [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association|HSRA]] leader [[Bhagat Singh]] was sentenced to death, and in London [[Gandhiji]] made a pact with [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Irwin]], which was [[Gandhi–Irwin Pact]]. Slowly, revolutionaries started opposing [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and his [[Nonviolence]] principles. Finally, In March 1931, Bhagat Singh was executed by hanging and [[Chandra Shekhar Azad]] was shot with a gun, who were the main figures of the armed struggle revolution. And just after that, Gandhi launched another Satyagraha movement, which was opposed by a large section of students and also by various revolutionary groups. So as a result, the armed struggle revolution increased and subsequently, the revolutionary groups also started increasing. At the same time Calcutta's biggest revolutionary group, The Indian Proletarian Revolutionary Party was formed, Konar along with [[Benoy Choudhury]] joined the group by holding each other's hand, soon Konar involved in various revolutionary activities such as making bomb, leading the robbery and slowly became the leader of that group.<ref name="sansad" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Konar|first=Hare Krishna|title=Nirbachito Rochona Sonkolon|publisher=National Book Agency Pvt ltd|year=1978|location=Kolkata|pages=|language=Bengali}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-07-14 |title=Revolutionaries: Section 'K' |url=http://www.andamancellularjail.org/K1.htm |access-date=2022-02-10 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714121042/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/K1.htm |archive-date=14 July 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Communist Consolidation and Cellular Jail (1932–38)==
Hare Krishna Konar was caught on September 15, 1932, in the Begut Robbery Case. Konar was ridiculously tortured by the police after his arrest. But Konar never uttered a single name of any revolutionary and tolerated all the tortures by the British Police. In the special tribunal case, the police filed a charge sheet u/s 694 and u/s 398 of the Indian Public Penal Code against Hare Krishna Konar as an accused for robbery and murder. After the arrest he was taken to Midnapore Central Jail and on 20th January, 1933 the judgment of the tribunal was delivered in [[Calcutta High Court]], in his court trial Konar was present along with other revolutionaries from all parts of Bengal like [[Mohan Kishore Namadas]] (arrested for Netrokona Soarikanda armed case), [[Sudhangshu Dasgupta]] (arrested for Mechuabazar Bomb Case), Karthik Chandra Dey Das and Mukul Chandra roy (arrested for calcutta arms act case), Gourishankar Dubey (arrested for muzaffarpur political dacoity case), Bindubhushan Sen (arrested for jamalpur dacoity and arms conspiracy case), Jagadananda Mukherjee (cornwallis street shooting case) and when Judges ask Comrade Hare Krishna Konar if he was guilty for his revolutionary activities against the [[British Empire]] or not. On the reply to it, Konar said: 
{{blockquote|What I have done I am not shameful for that and what will be my consequences I will be proud for that.}}
After his addressing the judgment said:
{{blockquote|Therefore acquit the accused of the charge under section 398 IPC with regard to the sentence to death on the accused under section 394 IPC. We have the consideration on the one hand that the offence is exceedingly grave one and on the other hand the youth of the accused who is to be about 17 years age, taking both the circumstances into account sentence the accused to undergo rigorous imprisonment six years.}}
After announcing the rigorous imprisonment, Hare Krishna Konar had no remorse for it. Again for a month he was kept in Midnapore Central Jail and in February 1933, the [[British India|Central Government]], in consultation with the [[Bengal Presidency|Government of Bengal]], decided that all prisoners who had been sentenced for 5 years or more, would be sent to the Kālā Pānī of [[Cellular Jail]] in the [[Andamans]]. As a result of the government's decision to give him the highest punishment of Kālā Pānī, at the age of 18, Konar was sent to the [[Cellular Jail]] of the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] in April 1933 by the Maharaja ship of the [[British Empire]]. As a companions on the ship, Hare Krishna Konar got revolutionaries like Satish Pakrashi, Niranjan Sen, Dr. Narayan Roy, Dr. Bhupal Bose convicted in the Dalhousie bomb case, although [[Sudhangshu Dasgupta]], involved in the Mechuabazar Bomb Case, was earlier sent to Cellular Jail in December 1932.
[[File:Michil z.jpg|thumb|106 = '''Hare Krishna Konar''' (The list of names who were integrated in cellular jail in 1932–1938).]]
Soon after the imprisonment in cellular jail, comrade Konar faced the inhuman and unimaginable tortures, treatment of [[Kālā Pānī]], it was physical tortures as well as mental torture more over the food that was given was not fit for human consumption, there were worms when they opened the bread and wild grass was boiled and served in rotten vegetables, rain water was given for drinking and the water was full of insects and worms, 13×6 cells were dark and damp and dingy thickly coated with moss, there were no toilets, there were no lights, no reading material, prisoners were not allowed to meet with each other, the guards carried out physical torture and flogging, their behaviour was insulting, things had become unbearable, so the prisoners came in a conclusion to do hunger strike against the jail authorities to improve the systems in jail, soon on 12 May 1933 the hunger strike was fast undo death, [[Mahavir Singh (revolutionary)|Mahavir Singh]] (arrested for [[Bhagat Singh#Delhi Assembly bombing and arrest|Lahore Conspiracy Case]]), [[Mohan Kishore Namadas]] (arrested for [[Calcutta]] arms act case) and [[Mohit Moitra]] (arrested for a Arms Act Case) died for [[Force-feeding]] by British warders during this hunger strike, their bodies were quietly ferreted away and thrown out to sea, so that the [[India]]ns could not get an issue to revolt against the [[British Raj|British governments]]. [[Central Jail Lahore]]'s inspector David Barker was called to break the hunger strike, he issued orders to stop the strike of drinking water. The freedom fighters were resolute, there was a huge outcry throughout [[India]] because of this hunger strike. After 46 days of this hunger strike, the [[British Raj]] had to bow and request to stop the hunger strike and they said the facilities they are demanding for will be accepted, so revolutionary of Cellular Jail had accept it, thus the hunger strike ended on 26 June 1933, and soon after the death of three respected revolutionaries [[Mahavir Singh (revolutionary)|Mahavir Singh]], [[Mohan Kishore Namadas]] and [[Mohit Moitra]] in the hunger strike, the facilities won from cellular jail authorities improved, which prisoners will be noted as less dangerous he will be released but will under the eyes of Britishers, light was fixed in every cell, opportunity to play sports, cultural events was organised by the jail authority and jail work was reduced to minimal, prisoners were allowed and given:

• Soap to bath

• Bed to sleep

• Edible food

• Allowed to study

• Given respect by the jail authority to the prisoners

• Allowed to communicate amongst themselves and many other facilities were also grewed.

During the hunger strike comrade konar met with Satish Pakrashi, [[Subodh Roy]], [[Niranjan Sengupta]], [[Ganesh Ghosh]], [[Batukeshwar Dutt]], [[Sachindra Nath Sanyal]], Jibendra Das, [[Nalini Das]], [[Shiv Verma]], met many others and soon after the hunger strike the supervision and checking process in the jail was extremely reduced, so the prisoners had been able to smuggle in a lot amount of communist and socialist literature. Dr. Narayan Roy and [[Niranjan Sengupta]] smuggled a largest volume of literature in the cellular jail from the group of [[Central Jail Lahore]]. Several prisoners were of high learning and had been permitted all sorts of books for study in jail, on their release the prisoners made over their literature to the other revolutionary, who brought them to the [[Andaman Islands|Andaman]] unchecked by the so many authorities which formally checked them, on their way to the Andaman. The prisoners also requested the warders outside the andaman jail to get books direct from the book smugglers, the prisoners requested their relatives though letter to send them particular books, when they arrived in jail, they were checked by the authorities who finding them objectionable set them aside. However, some revolutionary prisoners who were working in the jail office who picked those books and gave them to their [[comrade]]s. Konar also arranged to bring books from his Memari's house and money to buy books for Konar to study, he used to read that book all day and meet at one place in the evening and Konar would explain the essence of that book in details. The cellular jail authority made a library for the revolutionaries but the control of the library passed into the hands of all the [[Left radicalism|left radical]] who were formerly a revolutionary and named the library as "''The Veritable University of Revolutionaries''", this was about the year 1935. The prisoners spent most of their time in reading [[Communism|communist]] or [[Socialism|socialist]] [[literature]] in "''The Veritable University'' " and a thirst for books and knowledge began, there were students, doctors, lawyers, peasants, and workers all together, discussion of [[politics]], [[economics]], [[history]] and [[philosophy]] as the result that there was hardly any left who had not become a confirmed Communist or Socialist. Hare krishna konar, Shiv verma, Satish pakrasi held study circles, in which the principles of [[Socialism]], [[Marxism]] and [[Communism]] were explained, [[biology]] and [[physiology]] given by the doctors amongst them, others gave the classes of [[History|historical]] and [[dialectical materialism]] eventually a different and new environment was created as the revolutionary met to discuss and read. Soon Hare Krishna Konar and Shiv verma decided to make an organ of the party which was called the [[Communist Consolidation]], should be started immediately with 39 prisoners on 26 April 1935 the Consolidation was formed. “[[Vande Mataram]]” and “[[Bharat mata ki jai|Bharat Mata ki Jai]]” and other national slogans were never used. The consolidation members only use the slogan of "[[Inquilab Zindabad]]" and "[[Workers of the world, unite!|Dunia ka majduro ek ho]]". [[Dhanwantri]], [[Bejoy Kumar Sinha]], [[Batukeshwar Dutt]], Narain Roy, and [[Niranjan Sengupta]] were appointed to the editorial board of a Newspaper, named “The Call”, which were published from the jail. The “Call” was started as a monthly paper and act as a mouthpiece of communist consolidation, the number of member in communist consolidation swelled to 200 and all of them contributed articles on different subjects dealing with [[Communism]], [[Marxism]], [[Socialism]], Biography of [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Karl Marx]], etc., “The Call” was like a magazine paper, only one copy was written and placed in the library, it had about 150 pages, later the consolidation member celebrates the [[May Day]], [[October Revolution Day]], Vladimir Lenin's birthday, etc. These activities of the Communist Consolidation continued unhindered till about the middle of 1937. The [[Chittagong armoury raid|Chittagong arms Group]] members therefore, started military parades, at first without the sanction of the authorities, but a little later with the full approval of the authorities. They also had their uniform prepared, they prepared their buttons and badges from the silver utensils they were given for use. [[Ananta Singh]] was their leader instructor, they were able to put up a very impressive show. When they marched past, and performed several lying and attacking formations with their Bamboo sticks used instead of muskets, they appeared really magnificent. The members of the Communist Consolidation were so impressed with these military drills of the [[Chittagong armoury raid|Chittagong group]] that they also sought permission from the Communist Consolidation leaders to join the daily parades of the Chittagong Group. This resulted in the number of the Chittagong paraders increasing to about 90 and all the chittagong arms group member also join the Communist consolidation. This is the time of 1937 the prisoners were enjoying their daily activities and saying themselves as political prisoners of [[Andaman Islands|Andaman]] [[Cellular Jail]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":15">{{Cite web |date=2006-07-17 |title=History of Andaman Cellular Jail |url=http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm |access-date=2022-02-10 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717230535/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm |archive-date=17 July 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=In Andamans, the Indian bastille|last=Sinha|first=Bejoy Kumar|date=1988|publisher=People's Pub. House|isbn=978-8170070771|edition=2nd rev.|location=New Delhi|oclc=19946950 |author-link=Bejoy Kumar Sinha}}</ref>

In the time 1937 the revolutionaries of cellular jail started feeling the atmosphere for the world war and the freedom fighters thought that before the war starts we should get back to our country to be with our people and take active part in the [[Anti-war movement]] and as after studying about [[Marxism]], [[Communism]] and [[Socialism]] the freedom fighters of jail started saying themselves as political prisoners so they want to get treated like other political prisoners who were treated in other jails for that's why a petition was sent to Viceroy and governor-general [[The Marquess of Linlithgow]] on 9 July 1937 by [[Shiv Verma]] and Hare Krishna Konar that: 
{{blockquote|All [[political prisoner]]s should be repatriated to the mainland and released. An ultimatum was given that if these demands were not met a hunger strike would begin.}}
But there was no response from the viceroy [[The Marquess of Linlithgow]], so finally on 25 July 1937 the 385 political prisoners went on hunger strike, some of the 80 other prisoners got bailed by giving the excuse to the jail authority that they are going on their personal works and businesses, but actually they were going to propagate and to encourage the Indians to do protest against the [[British Government|British government]] to transfer the prisoners from [[Andaman Islands|andaman]] to mainland and creating a noise and protesting against the force feeding by the jailers. The prisoners also arrange to get information regarding Indian reactions to the hunger strike, it had already been arranged that the newspapers containing Indian reactions should be smuggled inside the jail through some warders and other contacts which had been established with some of the local peoples. A country wide movement on the mainland in support of demands of the [[Andaman Islands|Andaman]] freedom fighters began to treated as other political prisoners like other jails. There was a mass demonstration of working people, intellectuals and students. This upsurge clearly showed that their people on the mainland did not forget them. After four weeks telegrams from leaders of the nation [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], [[Sarat Chandra Bose]], [[Rabindranath Tagore]], etc. poured in imploring the freedom fighters to end their hunger strike. Letter to Viceroy on 3 August 1937 by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] that:
{{blockquote| I as a poet appeals you to transfer the political prisoners of cellular jail to mainland as the hunger strike begins and we cannot allow this flowers of the nation to wither away, so please don't use cellular jail as a concentrating camp of revolutionaries and you have to release the political prisoners from jail.}}
Letter to Hare Krishna Konar on 28 August 1937 by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and the [[Congress Working Committee]] that:
{{blockquote|The whole nation along with me and congress working committee members appeals to you to end the hunger strike and assures you to take up your demands and to see them fulfilled.}} After a lot of deliberation and discussion this historic 36-days hunger strike of 200 revolutionary freedom fighters ended. The process of repatriation started on 29 November 1937. There were a total of 385 freedom fighters in jail at the time. 339 from Bengal, 19 from Bihar, 11 from Uttar Pradesh, 5 from Assam, 3 from Punjab, 2 from Delhi and 2 from Madras and most of the member of this organization along with Hare Krishna Konar was previously the member of [[Anushilan Samiti]] and [[Jugantar]] or from [[Pre-Marxist communism|Pro Marxist]] groups and by January 1938 Konar was back to Bengal from Andamans Cellular jail, Hare Krishna Konar was kept in Dumdum Central Jail for some time and transferred to Burdwan Jail, from where he was released on 27th March 1938.<ref name=":15" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Majumdar |first=Ramesh Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjwKAQAAIAAJ |title=Penal Settlement in Andamans |publisher=Government of India |year=1975 |location=Delhi |pages=339 |language=English |author-link=R. C. Majumdar}}</ref>

After being released from jail in 1938, he met with [[M. N. Roy]], [[Muzaffar Ahmed (politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]], [[Abdul Halim (communist)|Abdul Halim]], [[Bankim Mukherjee]], and [[Bhupendranath Datta]], with whom Konar had worked before being arrested in 1932. After being released, he again met with them and earned the membership in the [[Communist Party of India]]. From that year on, Hare Krishna Konar's [[Communism in India|Communist movement]] and path through [[Anti-capitalism]] and fighting for the rights of workers, peasants, and hardworking people started.<ref name="sansad">Sansad Bangla Charitbhidhan, p. 622, {{ISBN|81-85626-65-0}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

==In Communist movement (1938–1974)==
He first worked among the workers and trade unionists in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] and [[Howrah]]. After some months Comrade [[Benoy Choudhury|Benoy Chowdhury]] took him to Bardhaman district and he started working in the kisan (farmers) movement. In 1939, he participated in the Canal Tax protest in Bardhaman district. In 1940 he was banned by the British Government from entering [[Asansol]], [[Burnpur]] area and later on from Bardhaman district. But he still worked from underground in Bardhaman, and he was once arrested for few months.<ref name=":0" />

In 1944 he was again arrested and he was banned by the government to step out of [[Bardhaman|Bardhaman City]]. He played important role during the [[Ajay river]] Dam movement of 1943–1944 and second stage of Canal Tax protest of 1946–1947. While canvassing for elections in colliery area of Asansol he was physically assaulted by goons, and his legs were broken.  In March 1948 when the CPI was banned, he was arrested immediately for 3 months. After being released he went into hiding and remained so until 1952. His chief role was maintaining communications between Kolkata, Bardhaman, Howrah and Hooghly in this time. He played an important role during the Food Movement of West Bengal in 1953, and Civil Disobedience movement in 1957, and was arrested both times. [[Sino-Indian War|Sino-Indian war]] fighting began on the Himalayan border on 10 October 1962 between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Army of India. This issue that fueled the split in the [[Communist Party of India]] was parting of the ways between the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] and [[China]]. Though the conflict had a long history, it came out in open in 1959, [[Nikita Khrushchev]] sought to appease the West during a period of the Cold War known as 'The Thaw', by holding a summit meeting with U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Two other reasons were [[Soviet Union|USSR]]'s unwillingness to support [[China|Chinese]] nuclear program and their neutrality in the initial days of Sino-Indian border conflict. These events greatly offended [[Mao Zedong]] and the other Chinese Communist leaders. In 1962, [[Mao Zedong]] criticised [[Nikita Khrushchev]] for backing down in the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. By that time the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] were openly supporting India in its border dispute with [[China]]. These events were followed by formal statements of each side's ideological positions: the [[China|Chinese]] came out with their document in June 1963. The [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] too came out with their own document. Thereafter the two parties stopped communicating. During the 1962 [[Sino-Indian war]], other parties portrayed left-wing parties as [[China|pro-China]], since both were [[Communism|Communist]]. Hare Krishna Konar among with other Communists stated that the left Wings was focused on solving the border dispute through talk. As of 1963 the [[All India Kisan Sabha]] had been rendered dysfunctional as most of its key leaders and cadres had been jailed. However, by late 1963 and early 1964 most of jailed AIKS leaders and cadres were released from prison. During the 1964 split in CPI, there were efforts to retain AIKS as a united organization. However, there were tensions between the CPI(M) and CPI factions within AIKS, per Surjeet (1995) a mayor source of tension was the rejection of the rightists to demand release of jailed AIKS leaders. Among the AIKS grassroots, the majority sided with CPI(M). But the split in the AIKS top leadership was 'somewhat uneven' per Sharma (1978). Its president, Gopalan, went to CPI(M) whilst the general secretary Bhowani Sen sided with CPI(Right). Among key Central Kisan Council members, the ones that sided with CPI(M) included Lyallpuri, Parulekar, Konar, C.H. Kanaran and N. Prasad Rao. In the CPI(Right) faction, in the Central Kisan Council key leaders included Manali C. Kandaswami, B.V. Kakkilaya, Jagannath Sarkar, Z.A. Ahmed and Karyanand Sharma and on 11 April 1964, the landmark incident happened in [[Delhi]], the "Leftist faction" happned in [[Communist Party of India]] national council including 30 Leftists [[P. Sundarayya]], [[M. Basavapunniah]], [[T. Nagi Reddy]], [[Moturu Hanumantha Rao|M. Hanumantha Rao]], [[D.V. Rao]], N. Prasad Rao, G. Bapanayya, [[A.K. Gopalan]], A.V. Kunhambu, C.H. Kanaran, [[E.K. Nayanar]], [[V.S. Achuthanandan]], E.K. Imbichibava, [[Promode Dasgupta]], [[Muzaffar Ahmed (politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]], [[Abdul Halim (communist)|Abdul Halim]], Hare Krishna Konar, [[Saroj Mukherjee]], [[P. Ramamurthi]], M.R. Venkataraman, [[N. Sankariah]], [[K. Ramani]], [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], [[Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri]], D.S. Tapiala, Bhag Singh, [[Sheo Kumar Mishra]], R.N. Upadhyaya, Mohan Punamiya, and [[R.P. Saraf]] and two Centrist leaders, [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]] and [[Jyoti Basu]], walked out from the meeting to protest against the “revisionist policies” of General Secretary [[Shripad Amrit Dange]] and his followers, particularly the failure to have “class struggle” as its main policy. [[Shripad Amrit Dange]]'s followers had an overwhelming majority in the National Council and The left fraction section organised their own conference in [[Tenali]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. These thirty-two leaders were also suspended from National Council of [[Communist Party of India]] on that day 11 April 1964. The left leaders who were ousted, in turn, announced a separated national convention. while the leftist fraction group holds a parallel congress in  [[Tenali]], [[Andhra Pradesh]] and The leftist section, to which the 32 National Council members belonged, organized a convention in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh 7 to 11 July. In this convention, the issues of the internal disputes in the party were discussed. 146 delegates, claiming to represent 100,000 CPI members, at the Tenali convention a Bengal-based pro-Chinese group like konar, mukherjee, Dasgupta, basu and halim, representing one of the most radical streams of the CPI left-wing and in that meeting they decided to make the party in 7th Congress of Communist Party of India. The Congress government of P C Sen in Bengal arrested many of the breakaway group's leaders days before the Congress, and in 1964 Hare Krishna Konar was imprisoned for two years, for that's why he could not take part in 7th Congress of Communist Party of India's parallel where the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] were formed in [[calcutta]], for that reason he could not able to be the member of 1st [[Politburo]] but he was elected as central committee and after some months many other communist leader was also arested for joining the seventh Congress in [[calcutta]], such as the former [[List of chief ministers of Kerala|chief minister]] of [[Kerala]], [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]], the organisational specialist [[Promode Dasgupta]], the former [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister of West Bengal]], [[Jyoti Basu]], the [[Telangana revolutionaries]], [[Puchalapalli Sundarayya]] and [[Makineni Basavapunnaiah]] as well as some members of the rightist section such as the trade unionist [[A. B. Bardhan]] and was released after an order from the [[Supreme Court of India]] in 1966. By 1967 AIKS was divided into two parallel organizations, as a consequence of the split in the party. At the August 28, 1967 Central Kisan Council meeting in [[Madurai]], differences arose over the membership figures. The CPI(M) faction in AIKS accused the CPI faction of presenting false inflated membership data of state units in order to increase their influence in the organization. The dispute led to a walk-out from the Central Kisan Council. In 1968 Hare Krishna Konar was elected as the first general secretary of the new fraction from rightist organization to leftist.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Eashvaraiah|first=P.|title=The Communist Parties in Power and Agrarian Reforms in India|publisher=Academic Foundation|year=1993|isbn=9788171880164|language=English}}</ref><ref name=":2"/><ref>Bose, Shanti Shekar. ''A Brief Note on the Contents of Documents of the Communist Movement in India''. National Book Agency: Kolkata. 2005. p. 56-59</ref>
[[File:Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (16).jpg|thumb|[[Jyoti Basu]], [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], [[A. K. Gopalan]], '''Hare Krishna Konar'''. (In [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]] conference held in [[Kolkata]]).]]
He was one of the co-founders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) when it was formed from [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|Communist Party of India in 1964]]. From 1957 he was a member of the West Bengal State Council of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]]. From 1964 until his death he was a member of West Bengal State Committee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]. From 1958 he was a member of National Council of CPI and from 1964 until his death he was a member of Central Committee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2015-08-11|title=Present Stage of Peasant Movement|url=https://www.cpim.org/content/present-stage-peasant-movement|access-date=2020-03-31|website=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|language=en}}</ref> From 1954 until his death he was the Secretary of West Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha (part of [[All India Kisan Sabha]]) and Member of central council of [[All India Kisan Sabha]] [[Communist Party of India|CPI]]. From 1968 until his death he was the General Secretary of [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]] [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]. He was also the Member of [[Chinese Communist Party]], [[Communist Party of Vietnam]], [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] and the Member of [[Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers|Trade Unions International of World Federation]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Konar|first=Hare Krishna|title=Nirbachito Rochona Sonkolon|publisher=National Book Agency|year=1978|location=Kolkata|pages=9|language=Bengali}}</ref>

===In West Bengal government===

'''1957–1962'''<br />In the [[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1957]], Hare Krishna Konar and Jamadar Majhi was elected as the representative of the Kalna constituency and the Communist Party returned as the second largest party with an increased representation. This platform enabled the Communist Party under the leadership of [[Jyoti Basu]] in West Bengal to exacerbate agitations against the prevalent food crisis in West Bengal by acting as the [[Parliamentary opposition|principal opposition]] on the floor of the assembly, increasing public awareness and providing a united front for agitators to rally around.<ref name=":10" />

'''1962–1967'''<br />In the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1962]], Hare Krishna Konar was once again re-elected as the representative of the [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna constituency]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=West Bengal 1962|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3183-west-bengal-1962/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> In the following period the Communist Party underwent a vertical split with a section of the party including Hare Krishna Konar going on to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist). There were several ongoing ideological conflicts between sections within the Communist Party with regards to the nature of the [[Indian State]] and the characterisation and method of interaction with the [[Indian National Congress]], with regards to the approach towards the [[Sino-Soviet split|ongoing debate]] between the [[Soviet Union]] and China and with regards to the handling of the [[border disputes between India and China]]. These debates were further exacerbated by the food movement in [[West Bengal]] and brought to the forefront by the rising border tensions between India and China.<ref name=":37">{{Cite news|last=Doctor|first=Vikram|date=7 October 2012|title=1962 India-China war: Why India needed that jolt|work=[[The Economic Times]]|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/1962-india-china-war-why-india-needed-that-jolt/articleshow/16703076.cms}}</ref> The Communist Party had also become the second largest party in the [[Lok Sabha]] following the [[1962 Indian general election]] with nearly 10% vote share which is described to have brought prominence to the internal divisions of the party.<ref>{{Cite web|title=General Election, 1962 (Vol I, II)|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/4113-general-election-1962-vol-i-ii/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref><ref name=":37" />

'''1967–1969'''<br />In the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1967]], fourteen opposition parties contested through two pre-poll political alliances;<ref name=":172">{{Cite journal|last=Chaudhuri|first=Amiya Kumar|date=1993|title=Control, Politics and Perspective of a State Legislature|journal=The Indian Journal of Political Science|volume=54|issue=1|pages=98–102|jstor=41855642|issn=0019-5510}}</ref> Communist Party of India (Marxist) led [[United Left Front (1967)|United Left Front]] and the [[Communist Party of India]] and [[Bangla Congress]] (splinter of the Congress party formed in 1966) led [[People's United Left Front]].<ref name=":63">{{Cite journal|last=Mayers|first=James|date=8 May 2007|title=Economic reform and the urban/rural divide: Political realignment in West Bengal 1977–2000|journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies|language=en|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|volume=24|issue=1|pages=20–23|doi=10.1080/00856400108723422|s2cid=145773403|issn=0085-6401}}</ref> The Communist Party of India (Marxist) became the second largest party outstripping its former party, the [[Communist Party of India]]. Following the election, the two alliances joined forces to form the [[United Front (1967)|United Front government]] in West Bengal. During the negotiations between the two alliances, [[Jyoti Basu]] was denied the position of chief minister due to opposition to the idea from the [[Communist Party of India]] and [[Bangla Congress]],<ref name=":60">{{Cite journal|last=Dasgupta|first=Biplab|date=1972|title=The 1972 Election in West Bengal|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=7|issue=16|pages=804–808|jstor=4361253|issn=0012-9976}}</ref> all of whom eventually settled for [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] of the [[Bangla Congress]] as the consensus candidate for the position while [[Jyoti Basu]] became the deputy chief minister and in-charge of the finance department and Hare Krishna Konar as the [[Ministry of Lands and Parliamentary Reforms|Minister of Land and Land Revenue]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /> The government however collapsed within a year when the food minister, [[Prafulla Chandra Ghosh|P. C. Ghosh]] resigned from the government after facing persistent agitations led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (both part of the same government) against his policy of seeking voluntary measures from landlords and middlemen which were ineffective in resolving the food crisis.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book|last=Rao|first=M. V. S. Koteswara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e0SAQAAMAAJ|title=Communist parties and United Front experience in Kerala and West Bengal|date=2003|publisher=Prajasakti Book House|isbn=978-81-86317-37-2|pages=236–240|language=en}}</ref>

'''1969–1971'''<br />For the mid term [[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1969]], the [[United Front (West Bengal)|United Front]] Committee was formed consisting of all the coalition partners of the previous government which agreed upon a pre-poll alliance to contest the election together under a 32-point programme.<ref name=":172" /> Under terms of the agreement, if the alliance were to attain a majority then [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] would become the chief minister while [[Jyoti Basu]] would become the deputy chief minister.<ref name=":172" /><ref name=":57">{{Cite book|last=Ray|first=Sudhir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=loYOAQAAMAAJ|title=Marxist Parties of West Bengal in Opposition and in Government, 1947–2001|date=2007|publisher=Progressive Publishers|isbn=978-81-8064-135-0|pages=89–102|language=en}}</ref> In addition during the negotiations Basu was able to secure the portfolios of fisheries, food, excise, labour, civil defence and education for the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI-M]] as well as Minister of Land and Land Revenue was changed his name to Minister of Land and Land Reforms and the minister was Hare Krishna Konar.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Roychoudhury|first=Profulla|title=Left Experiment in West Bengal|publisher=[[University of Michigan]]|year=1985|pages=90–95|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":57" /> In the election, the [[United Front (West Bengal)|United Front]] won an overwhelming victory with 214 out of 280 seats and as a consequence the Communist Party of India (Marxist) stood as the first party other than the [[Bangla Congress|Congress]] party to become the largest party in the assembly.<ref name="Mitra2007">{{cite book|author=Subrata K. Mitra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GuILNHwcT4AC&pg=PA99|title=The Puzzle of India's Governance: Culture, Context and Comparative Theory|date=7 May 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-27493-2|page=99}}</ref>

The second [[United Front (West Bengal)|United Front government]] however too fell within a short period of time, on this occasion the chief minister [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] resigned in March 1970 after facing an aggravated and dysfunctional government where smaller member parties were in confrontation with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the largest among them on various issues. The government continued to be operational until the dissolution of the assembly by presidential proclamation on 30 July.

'''1971–1972'''<br />In the following [[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1971]], the parties contested alone but Communist Party of India (Marxist) remained as the single largest party while increasing its number of seats from 80 to 113.<ref name=":172" /> Both the former chief minister [[Ajoy Mukherjee]] of the [[Bangla Congress]] and the former Minister of Land and Land Revenue of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) contested from the [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna constituency]] which ended with Hare Krishna Konar  and [[Jyoti Basu]] winning.<ref name=":172" />

'''1972–1972'''<br />In the [[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal Legislative Assembly election of 1972]], [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] won an overwhelming majority and [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]] who was previously in the [[Bangla Congress]] and later appointed as a specialised union cabinet ministry called [[West Bengal]] Affairs Minister became the new [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|chief minister]] of the state.<ref name=":64">{{Cite book|last=Chander|first=N. Jose|title=Coalition Politics: The Indian Experience|date=2004|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-092-1|pages=103–105|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":60" /> The Communist Party of India (Marxist) was only able to secure 14 seats and Hare Krishna Konar for the first time lost his seat in the [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna constituency]] to his former associate Nurul Islam Molla.<ref name=":60" /> Before the election, the [[Communist Party of India]] allied with [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] while a section of the [[Bangla Congress]] had also merged with the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]].<ref name=":60" /> The opposing alliance was led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) which included the previous members of the [[United Left Front (1967)|United Left Front]] alongside the [[Biplobi Bangla Congress]], a splinter of the [[Bangla Congress]].<ref name=":60" />

===World Communist movement===
He knew 16 international languages like [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[German language|German]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], etc. He was the member of [[Chinese Communist Party]], [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], [[Communist Party of Vietnam]], [[Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers|World Federation of Trade Unions International]] and as a representative of the [[Communist Party of India]], The [[Workers Party of Vietnam]] held its third national party congress in Hanoi from 5–12 September 1960 and to meet with [[Ho Chi Minh]] the founder of [[Workers Party of Vietnam]]. From [[Communist Party of India]] the representative were [[K. Damodaran]] and Hare Krishna Konar Allegedly, [[Ajoy Ghosh]] the general secretary of [[Communist Party of India]] had instructed the two delegates to stay away from contact with the Chinese delegation at [[Hanoi]]. In [[Vietnam]] Hare Krishna Konar and [[K. Damodaran]] met with [[Ho Chi Minh]] and discussed the serious matter about the ideological dispute between [[China]] and [[USSR]], In [[Hanoi]] Congress Damodaran refused to meet with Chinese delegation, but Hare Krishna Konar met with them and accepted their invitation to visit [[Peking]] (present day Beijing), immediately after the Hanoi congress. In [[Peking]] (present day Beijing) Hare Krishna Konar met with [[Mao Zedong]], [[Zhou Enlai]], [[Liu Shaoqi]], [[Lin Biao]] and other leaders and immediately an emergency conference had held in [[Peking]] (present day Beijing), China in 1960 for [[India]]n Communist leader Hare Krishna Konar, the meeting between [[Mao Zedong]] and Hare Krishna Konar is the landmark meeting in Indian Communist history as well as Chinese Communist history, in that meeting [[Mao Zedong]] said to Hare Krishna Konar that if the [[Communist Party of India]] will led in whole [[India]] rather than [[Indian National Congress]] then only we will release all the captured land from India and also stopped the [[Sino-Indian War]] for boder dispute, Upon Hare Krishna Konar's return to India he argued for [[Chinese Communist Party]] positions on border issue as well as the wider ideological conflict between [[Communist Party of Soviet Union]] and Chinese Communist Party. This was first direct attempt by Chinese Communist Party to gain influence inside the [[Communist Party of India]]. He also attended the [[Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers|Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Worker's]] conference at [[Prague]], Czechoslovakia in 1970; He attended the [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba|Communist Party of Cuba's]] conference at [[Havana]], Cuba in 1970 and met with [[Fidel Castro]]; He attended the [[Progressive Party of Working People]]'s conference in [[Nicosia]], Cyprus in 1970; He has also attended the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party of the Soviet Union's]] conference and met with communist leader [[Leonid Brezhnev]] at [[Moscow Kremlin]], Soviet Union (Present day [[Russia]]) in 1971; He attended the [[Romanian Communist Party|Romanian Communist Party's]] conference and met with [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] at [[Bucharest]], Romania in the 1960s; He had also attended [[Workers' Party of Korea|Worker's Party of Korea's]] conference at [[Pyongyang]], North Korea in 1971 and there he has given lecture in front of [[Choe Yong-gon (official)|Choe Yong-gon]] the [[List of heads of state of North Korea|Head of State of North Korea]] and met with [[Kim Il Sung]]; He attended [[Italian Communist Party (2016)|Italian Communist Party's]] conference at [[Rome]], Italy in 1971; He attended the [[Mexican Communist Party|Mexican Communist Party's]] conference at [[Mexico City]], Mexico in 1973 and [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party of Germany's]] conference at [[Berlin]], Germany in 1973.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2"/>

===Naxalbari uprising===
[[Naxalite–Maoist insurgency|Naxalite]] movement derives its name from Naxalbari, a small place in [[Siliguri]] subdivision of [[Darjeeling]] district of [[West Bengal]]. It all started in 1967 after the first non-congress government came into power under the name of [[United front|United Front]] Government. The dominant forces in the government were the Leftists. The main forces were the [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] and the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]. They represented the aspirations of the marginalized and the poor. The minister-in-charge of Land and Land Revenue was Hare Krishna Konar who was a veteran peasant leader. In an interview with his party mouthpiece [[Ganashakti]], he made his intentions clear about the quick distribution of surplus land and he further asked for peasant initiative and organized force. What he did not realize was that the aspirations of the poor peasantry were already on a high note and his invitation escalated them further. As the later developments showed they went far beyond his expectations. Although there were no doubts about the intentions of the leftists in the government about the redistribution, the path to achieve the goals was not that simple. There were some constraints before government. To name a few first they were not sure about how to recover the land from the landlords. Second the landlords could take the help of law to delay the seizure of land and thus postpone the redistribution for an indefinite period. Third was the working of the bureaucracy. There were some instances of even defying the orders of the ministers. As a result of these obstacles, the government could not implement the land reforms quickly. The [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] was in a difficult situation because it was in the power so it could not totally do away the legal and official procedure and on the other hand the aspirations of the peasantry had to be satisfied. Everyone was not happy with government policy of redistributing the land through legal process. One of such prominent figures was [[Charu Majumdar|Charu Mazumdar]] who was attacking Hare Krishna Konar on three accounts. The first point was that he submitted to the bureaucrats and feudal gentry. The second point was that there might be disputes among the peasants who acquired the land through legal process and those who got it through forceful means. The third point was that the peasants who would acquire the land through legal process might eventually become a complacent middle farmer. Developments at [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]]: In this light a peasants’ conference was held under the auspices of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] at [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] and it gave a call for ending the monopoly ownership of land by landlords, organization and arming of peasants to destroy the resistance of landlords. Among the sponsors of the conference were [[Kanu Sanyal]] and [[Jangal Santhal]] who later became prominent leaders of the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari movement]]. Both of them were in favor of political propaganda and mass mobilization what was opposed by [[Charu Majumdar|Charu Mazumdar]]. He wanted only action. So there were some differences on the part of the strategy to be followed but they were clear on many points such as that India's liberation could be achieved only through [[Chinese Communist Party|China's]] path, propagation of politics of agrarian struggle among the working class and the peasantry and building up a secret party to prepare cadres for this purpose. As a result of those differences pointed out already, [[Siliguri]] Local committee cadres decided to go on the path of mass movements whereas [[West Dinajpur district|West Dinajpur]] unit decided to stick to the idea of [[Charu Majumdar|Charu babu]]. Now the mobilization started on a large scale. From March to April (1967) all the villages of the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] were organized and 15000 to 20000 peasants were enrolled as whole time activists. They soon occupied the land in the name of peasants’ committees, burnt all land records, cancelled all hypothetical debts, and passed death sentences on oppressive landlords. They also formed armed bands by looting guns from the landlords, armed themselves with conventional weapons and set up a parallel administration to look after the villages. By May of that year itself three or four places were totally under the control of rebels. In the meantime [[Charu Majumdar|Charu babu]] addressed a meeting of the cadres and asked them to always be on the side of the poor and landless peasant. He said that our relation with rich farmers would always be of struggling nature. Observing that the situation going out of control [[United front|UF government]] woke up and Hare Krishna Konar was sent to the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] region and he asked the rebels to put down their arms and file the petition for the distribution of land vested with the government. It was also agreed that all the persons wanted by Police would also surrender. But the agreement was never implemented. Just after the return of minister from that place, a Police camp was established there. In the wake of these developments the first serious clash between Police and the peasants occurred on 23 May 1967, when a policeman was killed and in retaliation police opened fire on a crowd of villagers and killed nine people. Out of them six were women and two were children. This incident created tensions within and outside the United Front government. The West Bengal Secretariat condemned the incident and accused Chief Minister [[Ajoy Mukherjee]], an ex-Congressman of laying ‘one sided stress on police measures to maintain law and order’. Meanwhile, news of clashes between peasants and landlords kept pouring in from [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] and between third and 10 June. There were as many as eighty incidents of dacoity, two murders and also one abduction. Mr. B. Chavan Union Home Minister told the [[Lok Sabha]] that a reign of terror has been created in [[Darjeeling]]. By the end of June while the leadership of Communist Party of India (Marxist) was openly against the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] rebels. In [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] several groups within and outside [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] were coming together. These groups formed the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] Peasants Struggle Aid Committee, which became a nucleus of separate party of the future. [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] expelled 19 members in the light of the formation of the committee. In the meantime some other important developments were also taking place. On 28 June Radio Peking supported the movement and dubbed the [[United front|United Front]] government as a ‘tool of Indian reactionaries to deceive the people’. This was the first incident of [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese]] support to rebels and of Peking's disenchantment with [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]. On 12 July a major police action was launched. Although [[Chief minister|Chief Minister]] claimed that it was cabinet's decision, but [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] tried to dissociate itself from the police action. The [[Chief minister|Chief Minister]] also came under attack. By 20 July the prominent leaders like [[Jangal Santhal]] were arrested and by October 1967 an apparent lull was set in [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]]. Assessment of the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari]] Movement and causes for its failure: Coming to the evaluation of the [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari Movement]], we should keep in mind that although it was a moderate success it was suppressed within a few months. It enjoyed immense mass support, but it could not sustain for a long period of time. There are mainly two versions for the failure of the movement. One is from the point of view of [[Kanu Sanyal]] and other one is from the point of view of supporters of [[Charu Majumdar|Charu Mazumdar]]. [[Kanu Sanyal|Kanu Sanyal's]] in his famous Report on the 'Terai Peasants’ Movement has penned down some of the reasons. The main reason according to him was excessive reliance on the spontaneity of the masses and taking them as armed forces. Among the other reasons were the inclusion of some vagabonds and making them leaders of the movement. Lack of proper plan for the redistribution of grabbed land led to conflicts among the peasants. But according to him the main defect was failure to establish a powerful mass base. Talking about military weakness of the movement, [[Kanu Sanyal]] admitted that the [[Revolutionary|revolutionaries]] underrated the strength of the State machinery and thought that [[United front|United Front Government]] would not go to the extent of suppressing the movement.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Chatterjee|first=Rajiv|date=2010-01-24|title=Between a bullet and a target...: The Naxalbari Movement in West Bengal|url=http://rajivchatterjee.blogspot.com/2010/01/naxalbari-movement-in-west-bengal.html|access-date=2022-01-07|website=Between a bullet and a target...}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|date=2009-06-28|title=Naxalbari: The Beginning|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/print/naxalbari-the-beginning/|access-date=2022-01-21|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|date=2016-08-14|title=History of Naxalism {{!}} india {{!}} Hindustan Times|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/history-of-naxalism/story-4f1rZukARGYn3qHOqDMEbM.html|access-date=2022-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814222816/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/history-of-naxalism/story-4f1rZukARGYn3qHOqDMEbM.html|archive-date=14 August 2016}}</ref>

==Land reform movement (1966–1974)==
Hare Krishna Konar played a leading role in getting surplus land held by big land owners in excess of land ceiling laws and kept ‘[[Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988|benami]]’ (or false names) vested with the state. The quantum of land thus vested was around one million acres (4,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of good agricultural land. Subsequently, under the leadership of Hare Krishna Konar and Benoy Choudhury land was distributed amongst 2.4 million landless and poor farmers. It has been argued that this land reform along with [[Operation Barga]] formed the base for the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] victory in subsequent elections.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=319550&catid=39 |title = The story of a pretender |publisher = The Statesman, 9 February 2010 |access-date = 2010-11-12 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110807052518/http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=319550&catid=39 |archive-date = 7 August 2011 |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Konar |first=Hare Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qyscAAAAIAAJ |title=Agrarian Problems of India |publisher=Gour Saha |year=1977 |location=The University of Michigan |pages=240 |language=English}}</ref>

It was a strange quirk of history that at each stage of West Bengal's two phase land reforms there was a stalwart to guide and lead the Program. One was Hare Krishna Konar, the other Benoy Choudhury. Both of them were totally committed to the cause, profound believers in the principles of [[Scientific socialism|Scientific Socialism]]. The fearsome volatility of Konar was necessary to remove the immobility of the administration and to break the stranglehold of the landed gentry of West Bengal on the society and the political establishment in the late sixties. The amiable Gandhian mode of accommodation of [[Benoy Choudhury|Benoy Chaudhury]] was equally essential in another socio-political setting to carry a large majority of people with him for the success of the massive '[[Operation Barga]]'. Each performed his unique role to carry out [[Land reform in India|land reforms]] in two different historical situations. Soon after the first [[United front|United Front]] (UF) government came to power in 1967, the first arrow of the now famous [[Naxalbari uprising|Naxalbari movement]] was shot, killing inspector Wangeli of the [[West Bengal]] police. The countryside was seething with discontent. It was a troubled time Hare Krishna Konar became the land and land revenue minister. His talks with his old compatriot [[Kanu Sanyal]], held in a jungle about 6&nbsp;km away from the [[Sukna, Darjeeling|Sukna]] forest bungalow from midnight to early morning, had failed. The new government faced a militant [[peasant movement]]. Konar was convinced that any attempt to suppress the movement by the brute force of the repressive machinery of the state would help spread the movement through underground channels. Being a practitioner of the militant [[peasant movement]] himself, he knew the fish in water tactics of armed partisan action. He was determined to evaporate the water by weaning away the landless and land-poor [[peasant]]ry by substantially meeting their land hunger. And that could be done only through vesting of ceiling surplus land held clandestinely by the landed gentry of the state. Shortly after he assumed power Hare Krishna Konar had me appointed as director of land records and surveys and put in charge of unearthing land held '[[Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988|Benami]]' in excess of the ceiling and vesting them in the state through due process of [[law]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Bandyopadhyay|first=D.|date=2000|title=Land Reform in West Bengal: Remembering Hare Krishna Konar and Benoy Chaudhury|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4409315|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=35|issue=21/22|pages=1795–1797|jstor=4409315|issn=0012-9976}}</ref><ref name=":5"/><ref name=":11">{{Cite book|title=The State and Poverty in India, Kohli|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=22 January 1987|isbn=9780521378765|pages=626|language=English}}</ref>

=== Ingenious strategy of Konar and Choudhury ===

Though the [[United front|UF]] came to power with tremendous electoral support, it had to function strictly within the rigid parameters of the [[Indian Constitution]], the established basic [[law]]s, [[Judiciary|Judicial]] review of executive action and set legal and administrative procedures and practises. Any threat to any of the established parameters would have led to a summary dismissal by the not so friendly central government. The political genius of Hare Krishna Konar lay in his ability to play his own ball game with the same set of rules which were apparently set against it. The [[Constitution of India]] guarantees the right to form associations and unions and to assemble peaceably. The Indian Evi-Dence Act permits disbelieving of documentary evidence on the strength of overwhelmingly reliable oral evidence. The [[Crime|Criminal]] Procedure Code (CrPC)(u/s 110) allows some sort of public participation for gathering evidence against a person allegedly engaged in "bad livelihood" in order to bind him down for good behaviour. Nowhere is it stated that the restraining powers under the CrPC should always be used against the peasantry and workers. If the agricultural workers and share-croppers assemble peacefully to espouse a cause, if public order was threatened by landowners, the latter could be restrained under the CrPC in the interest of maintenance of public order. Combine the essence of these constitutional and legal rights and procedures and you have the "Konar" recipe of legal reform with popular participation. It was so simple, so bold and so novel. Konar did not approve of the seizure and occupation by force of private property by peasants, even though such lands had in many cases been held '[[Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988|benami]]'. Peasants, according to him, were conservative by nature. In their psyche private property was inviolable. Having lost their land through the process of exploitation, they hankered for their land as their own property. Hence illegal occupation of even illegally-held land would not absolve them of the sense of guilt for an illegal and even immoral action. Therefore, they would not have the courage and determination to fight for their rights if threatened with eviction in a changed political situation. Konar, therefore, favoured the legal way of vesting land in the state. Once the land became the property of the state, what would happen to it would be a matter of state policy and no individual's property right would be involved. It may look strange for a [[revolutionary]], but being a hard-headed realist, it made sense to Konar.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5"/>[[File:Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (13).jpg|thumb|[[M.A. Rasul|Abdullah Rasul]] (left), '''Hare Krishna Konar''' (center), [[Benoy Choudhury]] (right)]]

[[Operation Barga|Barga Operation]] was his notable contribution to the people from [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] [[Government of India|Government]] of [[West Bengal]]. To begin with, group meetings between Officials and [[Bargadar]]s were organized during "settlement camps" (also called "Reorientation camps"), where the bargadars could discuss their grievances. The first such camp was held at Halusai in Polba taluk in [[Hooghly district]] from 18 to 20 May 1978. In noted camp two Adibashi Borgaders objected procedure adopted by the official for [[Operation Barga|Barga Operation]]. They suggested to start it organising people in the field instead of sitting in the houses of rural rich people or the places dominated by them. Having that report Hare Krishna Konar immediately reorganised action plan and successful [[Operation Barga|Barga Operation]] was done.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5"/><ref name=":11"/>

===Our Land Problem===
THE LAND QUESTION is a national question and not one affecting merely the peasantry. If we fail to solve the land problem, the whole society will go down. If the nation as a whole does not stand behind the measures for land reform, the peasantry or the [[Government]] can do very little by themselves. History tells us that the land question and the struggle of the peasantry to resolve it were the motive force behind every revolutionary uprising whether in [[Russia]] or [[China]] or [[Vietnam]]. We are not sure how the land problem is going to be solved in India and what the future of this country will be. As I had said, the question of land reform does not affect the poor peasant only. [[Land reform]] is an imperative necessity for the revitalization of a moribund economy and a backward country. Modern research puts all the emphasis on providing technical know-how to increase agricultural production. This is a one-sided approach. Agriculture does not depend on the bounties of Nature alone. The peasant must have a love for his profession and there must be conscious effort for increasing production. Concentration of land in a few lands will condemn many to forced unemployment and make them a liability of society. Even if there is full production, it will not lead to equal distribution of food unless there is an equal distribution of land. Sanction of law will fail to put an end to malpractices. If opportunities to reap higher profits with less labour and investment exist, people will naturally try to take advantage of such opportunities and it is idle to believe their attitude can be changed through sermons. Solution of the land problem is necessary not only from the point of view of social justice but also from that of increasing food production. To build up our country try we must stand on our own legs and shed dependence on foreign aid. A scientific mobilization of our natural and human resources will go a long way to develop our agriculture. It is wrong notion that small holding are a bar to increasing production. Even if the peasant is given a small plot of land, he will feel the urge for increasing production since he feels it is his own. Of course, these is a limit to such an increase. The primary task, therefore, is abolition of large scale land and its distribution to the landless, the next step would be for the government to explain to the peasants the disadvantages of cultivating small holdings. The peasant will then voluntarily take to collective farming. Private ownership of land will thus be done away with. Then comes the question of removing the pressure on land. Land distribution by itself will not solve this problem. The pressure on land has to be reduced gradually. Cottage industries have got a positive role in this respect and those to be developed. The development of cottage industries, however, will not make for full-scale economic regeneration. We have to embark on industrial development. The rich will be denied the luxurious living they enjoy now, not because we have any personal grudge against them but because that mode of living does not fit with the over all interest of the country. Without going in for a radical change of the existing social system, we can not take the country along the path of progress and prosperity. It is impossible for the government to solve the land problem under the present social system. The [[Zamindar]]s and [[Maharaja]]s, who have other sources of income, should not be allowed to possess land. But the constitution stands in the way of taking such step. We, however, can and should try to plug the loop holes in the law relating to celling on land. The machinery of the Government connot carry out land reforms even though there are honest officers in the administration. In our case, there is the bureaucracy – a built in obstacle. The efforts of the administration have to be strengthened and supplemented by the conscious and organized participation of the peasants and the people at large. Academic discussion, to be useful, must shed their abstract nature and be practical and down to earth enunciation of policies and programme. A combination of all these factors will enable us to solve the land problems.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Sukanta|title=Kisan sangram, west bengal publisher kisan sabha|publisher=Madan gosh|year=2014|location=Kolkata|pages=79|language=Bengali}}</ref><ref name=":13" />

==Ideology==
===Nationalism===
Hare Krishna Konar regarded [[Mahatma Gandhi]], the congress leader as his young age freedom hero, and konar also says that the ideology of [[Ahimsa]] and [[Nonviolence]] is a great ideology through which India can obviously get freedom from the British raj. So, he had chosen the nonviolence path and also join [[Civil Disobedience Movement]]. But after gandhiji signed the [[Gandhi–Irwin Pact]] for joining the second round table conference in London and gandhi also abolished the [[Civil Disobedience Movement]] then comrade konar said that:
{{blockquote|India was just near the independence from the British Raj but for that fellow congress leader India's independence has delayed to another 10 years.}}
After this incident Comrade konar did not believe in the [[Gandhism|Gandhian]] ideology – which advocated [[Civil disobedience]] and other forms of non-violent resistance, and felt that such politics would replace one set of exploiters with another. But there was similar ideology between comrade Konar and Gandhi, and that was both of them believed that without the unification of [[Hindus]] and [[Muslims]] India will never get independence from British. In 1931 he joined the [[Revolutionary movement for Indian independence|India's Extremist Movement]] of [[Calcutta]] that was [[Jugantar]] founded by [[Sri Aurobindo]], a principal leader of Indian independence from Benga. In 1932 he was arrested by the British officers and was transported to [[Cellular Jail]] in [[Andaman Islands]].<ref name=":16" />

===Communism===
While comrade Konar was in cellular jail, he was an avid reader of the teachings of [[Mikhail Bakunin]] and also read [[Karl Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin]] and [[Leon Trotsky]], he studied the history of the revolutionary movements in India, [[europe]] and abroad. Konar describe [[Lenin]] as an revolutionary of modern world and he also he read the revolutionary thoughts of [[Trotsky]]. And he said that Satish Pakrashi were the man who taught him [[Communism]], [[Socialism]], and [[Marxism]] in the Jail. So in 1935 he get so attracted towards the [[Communism|Communist Ideology]] and by then he founded a  [[Revolutionary movement for Indian independence|Indian revolutionary]] and  [[Communism|Communist]] Organization named [[Communist Consolidation]] in Jail and later it resisted against [[imperialist]] [[British Empire|British]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite book|title=The Communist Parties in Power and Agrarian Reforms in India|publisher=P. Eashvaraiah|year=1993|isbn=9788171880164|location=Kerala and West Bengal, India|pages=240|language=English}}</ref> 
[[File:Karl Marx 001.jpg|thumb|'''Hare Krishna Konar''' came under the influence of [[Communism]], the ideology of [[Karl Marx]], in year 1934.]]
After the founding of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Comrade Hare Krishna Konar's aim was to start India's first Land Reform and to snatch the land from Zamindars to distribute the land among poor or landless people and he also opposed the private land ownership for that's why while he was the first [[Minister of Land|Land Minister of India]] in [[West Bengal]] he made a law of limited private Land and the limitation was 70–90&nbsp;[[bigha]] per family and this law was started from early 1968s and ended until 2011 while [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] led in [[West Bengal]]. Many people thought comrade konar as an anti maoist comrade so what he says towards the [[Maoism|Maoist]] ideology that: {{blockquote|I support the thought of Mao Zedong of China but the ideology of Mao is extreme violent and that can be harmful for indian Democracy}} Actually comrade konar was the believer of [[Scientific socialism]], so his process of land reform was also the formula of Socialism, he says that the differentiation of land between landless and landlord came in the eyes of [[Joseph Stalin]], comrade konar says towards this agrarian revolution that: {{blockquote|If agrarian revolution in the villages is not carried forward, People’s Democratic Revolution would be a far cry, the core of People’s Democratic Revolution is agrarian revolution and the key to its success is People’sDemocratic Revolution}} Comrade konar says, the main puzzled matter of [[Land Reform]] was to seizure land from big landlords of [[West bengal]], it was hard because if it would be done forcefully then the landlords would become against the communist and marxist ideology and it would become bad impression on Communist Party of India (Marxist), so it should be done in a very diplomatic and tactful way and that was done under the leadership of Hare Krishna Konar, he always say that to occupy the land from landlords there are two process first way is by forcefully snatched the land and the second way is by ''[[Brainwashing]]'' of landlords and It must be explained in such a way, as the landless peoples are the family members of landlords because rather than brainwash if we occupy the land forcefully then that would be a bad impression on communist ideology. So, comrade konar done land reform with the help of brainwashing and with the principal of [[Marxism–Leninism]] ideology.<ref name=":2" />

==Death and legacy==
===Death===
In the month of June 1974, Hare Krishna Konar was taken to Kimber Nursing Home in Parkcircus for treatment. An operation was done successfully, and another operation was underway. He said to Oncologist Dr. Ashok Sen that:
{{blockquote|Make me well, I have a [[Central committee|CC]] meeting}}
But unfortunately those were his last words because after the second operation, he slowly moved towards death and on 23 July 1974 at 6:30 pm he died of [[cancer]] at the age of only 58 in [[Kolkata]].<ref name=":3" /> The next day, July 24, at 10 am, he was brought to Muzaffar Ahmad Bhawan at 33 Alimuddin Street. His body was in the hall of the PC office, and countless people lined up from 10 am to 3 pm to pay their last respect, including [[Indira Gandhi]], [[A. K. Gopalan]], many other cabinet ministers, and international delegations from [[North Korea]], [[Vietnam]], [[China]] and [[Soviet Union]]. The work of giving garlands went on till 3 pm, and then he was given a state funeral by the [[Government of West Bengal]]. During the time thousands of people gathered on the road from A.J.C. Bose Road to Keoratola, his [[Funeral|funeral rally]] was the 4th largest funeral rally in [[India]]. It had nearly taken 2 hours to cross the road from Dharmatala to Keoratola, and finally at 6 pm, he was taken to the [[Keoratola crematorium]], where he was cremated in electric furnaces. On July 25, there was a statement published in all the newspapers that:
{{blockquote|Calcutta streets had never witnessed such a gathering like this before.}} The unbridled procession showed the greatness of Hare Krishna Konar in people's hearts.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Birth Centenary of Comrade HareKrishna Konar {{!}} Peoples Democracy|url=https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2014/0810_pd/birth-centenary-comrade-harekrishna-konar|access-date=2022-01-02|website=Peoplesdemocracy.in}}</ref>
[[File:1978615 305312579640429 709349804457241533 m.jpg|thumb|A famous picture of Comrade Konar]]

===Legacy===
The headquarter of Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]] in [[West Bengal]] is named after him. A street in [[Kolkata]], a road in [[Durgapur]] in [[West Bengal]], and a bridge in [[Memari]] in West Bengal are named in his honor. A government sponsored rural library, which was established in Hare Krishna Konar's birthplace in [[Kamargoria|Kamargaria]] village in [[West Bengal]], is also named after him.<ref name=":14" />

==Gallery==
Some old pictures of Hare Krishna Konar<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India – Punjab|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080802/punjab.htm|access-date=2022-01-11|website=www.tribuneindia.com}}</ref>
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|Michil f.jpg|'''Hare Krishna Konar''' in 1950.
|Michil e.jpg|In a Rally of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. ([[Jyoti Basu]] and '''Hare Krishna Konar''').
|Michil a.jpg|[[B. T. Ranadive]], [[Jyoti Basu]] and '''Hare Krishna Konar'''. (In front of [[Communist Party of India|Communist]] Leader [[Muzaffar Ahmad]] at his last breath).
|Michil d.jpg|'''Hare Krishna Konar''' in 1970.
|Hare Krishna Konar.jpg|'''Hare Krishna Konar''' in his office.
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (15).jpg|In a conference of [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]].
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (3).jpg|[[Susheela Gopalan]] (leftside front), '''Hare Krishna Konar''' (backward), [[A. K. Gopalan]] (rightside backward) and '''Biva Konar''' (rightside front).
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (11).jpg|General Secretary of [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]] [[Comrade]] '''Hare Krishna Konar'''    giving speech in an [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|AIKS]] meeting.
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (26).jpg|[[A. K. Gopalan]], '''Hare Krishna Konar''' and [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]]. (Standing for to take photo).
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (29).jpg|[[comrade]] [[A. K. Gopalan]] and  [[comrade]] '''Hare Krishna Konar'''.
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (36).jpg|Discussing about [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]'s future (left to right: [[Jyoti Basu]], [[B. T. Ranadive]], [[Samar Mukherjee]], [[Makineni Basavapunnaiah]] and '''Hare Krishna Konar''').
|Borsul A.I.K.S. Conferance (19).jpg|Two co-founders of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. ([[A. K. Gopalan]] and '''Hare Krishna Konar''').
|Michil v.jpg|'''Hare Krishna Konar''' and [[Puchalapalli Sundarayya]] . (In a Conference with [[Chinese Communist Party]] in [[Beijing]], China).
|First Central committee of CPI(M).jpg|Front row: [[Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri|Lyallpuri]], [[A. K. Gopalan]], [[Jyoti Basu]], '''Hare Krishna Konar''', [[Muzaffar Ahmad]], [[Puchalapalli Sundarayya|P. Sundarayya]], [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]], [[Makineni Basavapunnaiah|M. Basavapunnaiah]], [[Promode Dasgupta]], [[P. Ramamurthi]] and others 19 leaders. (In the first Central Committee meeting of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] held in [[Tenali]], [[Andhra Pradesh]] in July 1964).
|Michil u.jpg|[[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]], [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad|E.M.S Namboodiripad]], [[B. T. Ranadive|B.T. Ranadive]], '''Hare Krishna Konar''', [[Jyoti Basu]], [[Makineni Basavapunnaiah]], [[Promode Dasgupta]] and many other [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] leaders are standing here.
|In a confrence in Kolkata.jpg|'''Hare Krishna Konar''', [[Muzaffar Ahmad]], [[A. K. Gopalan]], [[M.A. Rasul|Abdullah Rasul]]. (In [[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]] conference held in [[Barshul]], [[West Bengal]]).
}}

==Electoral history==
Hare Krishna Konar was the [[Ministry of Lands and Parliamentary Reforms|Minister of Land and Land Revenue]] consecutively 4 times and every time he was the [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]] from [[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] seat 5 times.<ref name=":8">{{cite web|title=Statistical Reports of Assembly Elections|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp|archive-date=5 October 2010|access-date=2010-11-12|work=General Election Results and Statistics|publisher=Election Commission of India|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
 
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|+Election of 1957–1972
!Election
Year
!Office
Held
!Constituency
!Party Affiliation
! Result
|-
| [[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf| title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1957 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 218 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006032945/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 6 October 2010 }}</ref>
|style="background:#00FF80"|Won
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf | title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1962 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 298 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006192934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 6 October 2010 }}</ref>
|style="background:#00FF80"|Won
|-
| [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf | title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 329 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006080357/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 6 October 2010 }}</ref>
|style="background:#00FF80"|Won
|-
| [[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf| title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1969 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 329 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120112051819/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 12 January 2012 }}</ref>
|style="background:#00FF80"|Won
|-
| [[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf| title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1971 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 333 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120112052412/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 12 January 2012 }}</ref>
|style="background:#00FF80"|Won
|-
| [[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|[[Member of the legislative assembly]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf | title = Statistcal Report on General Elections 1972 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work = Detailed Results P 324 | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101007094829/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |access-date = 18 May 2021| archive-date = 7 October 2010 }}</ref>
|style="background:#FF6666"|Lost
|}

==Positions held==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year || Position || Place/Organisation || Belonging party || Remark
|-
|1935
|Founder
|[[Communist Consolidation]]
|
|It was a revolutionary organization founded in cellular jail, later it merged in to [[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
|-
|1940
|Secretary
|Burdwan District [[Indian National Congress|Congress]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|As [[Communist Party of India]] was Illegal, so he worked under [[Indian National Congress]], although he was Communist Party member.
|-
|1953
|Member
|West Bengal State Council of [[Communist Party of India]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|He held the position up to his resign in 1964
|-
|1954
|Member
|Central Council of [[All India Kisan Sabha]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|He held the position until his death in 1974
|-
|1954
|Secretary
|West Bengal Provincial [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|He held the position until his death in 1974
|-
|1956
|Member
|West Bengal State Secretariat of [[Communist Party of India]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|He held the position up to his resign in 1964
|-
|1957
|[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|2nd Legislative Assembly in the state of West Bengal
|-
|1958
|Member
|National Council of [[Communist Party of India]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|He held the position up to his resign in 1964
|-
|1962
|[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India]]
|3rd Legislative Assembly in the state of West Bengal
|-
|1964
|Founding member
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|
|He was one of 32 founding members of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] which was established in 1964.
|
|-
|1964
|Member
|Central Committee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|He held the position until his death in 1974
|-
|1964
|Member
|West Bengal State Committee of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|He held the position until his death in 1974
|-
|1967
|[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|4th Legislative Assembly in the state of West Bengal
|-
|1968
|General Secretary
|[[All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)|All India Kisan Sabha]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|He was the first holder after the 1967 split in [[All India Kisan Sabha|AIKS]] of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
|-
|1969
|[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|5th Legislative Assembly in the state of West Bengal
|-
|1971
|[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
|[[Kalna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kalna]]
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|6th Legislative Assembly in the state of West Bengal
|}

==Published Books==
* Pathera sandhāna<br />(Published in 1976 by National Book Agency of India).<ref name=":16">{{Cite book |last=Konar |first=Hare Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6cRAQAAIAAJ |title=Pathera sandhāna |publisher=Nabajātaka Prakāśana |year=1976 |location=The University of California |pages=160 |language=Bengali}}</ref>
* Agrarian Problems of India<br />(Published in 1977 by National Book Agency of India).<ref name=":5" />
* Bhāratera kṛshi samasyā<br />(Published in 1980 by National Book Agency of India and it is the Bengali version of Agrarian Problems of India is translated by Hare Krishna Konar).<ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Konar |first=Hare Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuDmMgEACAAJ |title=Bhāratera kṛshi samasyā |publisher=Harekṛshṇa Koṅāra Memoriẏāla Risārca Senṭāra |year=1980 |location=Kolkata |pages=239 |language=Bengali}}</ref>
* Selected Works<br />(Published in 1977 by National Book Agency of India and it is a selected articles, letters and political background of Hare Krishna Konar).<ref name=":14">{{Cite book |last=Konar |first=Hare Krishna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lUEAAAAMAAJ |title=Selected Works |publisher=Gour Saha |year=1977 |location=The University of Michigan |pages=182 |language=English}}</ref>
* Hare Krishna Konar prabandha sangraha<br />(Published in 2015  by National Book Agency of India and it is a biography book of Comrade Hare Krishna Konar).<ref name=":2" />
* Nirbachito Rochona Sonkolon<br />(Published in 1978 by National Book Agency of India and it is a collection of articles about Hare Krishna Konar).<ref name=":0" />
* Birth Centenary of Hare Krishna Konar<br />(Published in 2015 by Local Book Agency and it is a short biography of Hare Krishna Konar).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saha |first=Gour Chandra |title=Birth Centenary of Hare Krishna Konar |year=2015 |edition=1st |location=Kolkata |publication-place=North 24 Parganas |page=108 |language=Bengali}}</ref>

==See also==
• [[Sino-Soviet split]]

• [[Left Front (West Bengal)]]

• [[List of University of Calcutta people]]

==References==
===Notes===
{{notelist}}

===Citations===
<references />

==External links==
{{Sister project links|display=Hare Krishna Konar|wikt=no|c=Hare Krishna Konar|commonscat=Hare Krishna Konar|n=no|q=no|s=no|author=no|b=no|voy=no|v=no|d=y}}
*[http://vvsindia.com/scllibrary/books9/index.php/site/index.htm The library named after Hare Krishna Konar]
*[https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/opinion/piero-sraffa-and-the-forgotten-icons-of-progressive-transformative-politics/cid/1690106.htm Comparing two icon Piero Sraffa and Hare Krishna Konar]
*[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133860/?type=print.htm Hare Krishna Konar v. DwijendraLal Sengupta]


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