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'''Hari Krishna Vyas''' (born August 11, 1922<ref name=b>{{cite book|title=Rajasthan Directory & Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tMXAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Hindi Sahitya Mandir|page=243}}</ref>), was an [[India]]n politician.

As of the 1940s Vyas was a student movement leader, active in the [[All India Students Federation]].<ref name=a>''Mainstream Weekly''. ''[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article7734.html My fond memories of Dr Usha Shrivastava]''</ref> He served as the president of the C.P. and Berar Trade Union Congress 1948–1949.<ref name=b/> As of the 1950s and 1960s Vyas was the Rajasthan state secretary of [[Communist Party of India]].<ref>''The Hindu''. ''[https://www.thehindu.com/archive/rajasthan-opposition-leaders-held/article17412949.ece Rajasthan Opposition leaders held]''</ref><ref name="Shrader1965"/> Vyas contested the Jodhpur City "B" seat in the [[1951 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]], receiving 4.7% of the votes.<ref name="Shrader1965">{{cite book|author=Lawrence Loy Shrader|title=Politics in Rajasthan: A Study of the Members of the Legislative Assembly and the Development of the State's Political System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmEhAQAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=University of California|page=371}}</ref> In a subsequent bye-election in 1952, he won the Jodhpur City "B" seat with 27.9% of the votes.<ref name="Shrader1965"/> He thus became the sole communist member of the first Rajasthan legislature.<ref name="Windmiller1994">{{cite book|author=Marshall Windmiller|title=Communism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA575|year=1994|publisher=University of California Press|page=575|id=GGKEY:NSY99CAKNFU}}</ref> In 1953 he became a member of the CPI National Council.<ref name=b/><ref name="Windmiller1994"/> Around the late 1950s Vyas and V.V. Joshi founded Red Flag trade unions in the National Engineering Industries and Man Industries Corporation.<ref name="Chatterji1980"/> He lost the Jodhpur City II seat in the [[1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election]], coming in second place with 4,463 votes (20.94%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3379-rajasthan-1957/ Rajasthan 1957]''</ref> In 1962 he became the Vice President of the Indian Association for Afro-Asian Solidarity.<ref name=b/>

When the CPI split in 1964, Vyas remained in the party.<ref name="Chatterji1980">{{cite book|author=Rakhahari Chatterji|title=Unions, Politics, and the State: A Study of Indian Labour Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quorAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=South Asian Publishers|pages=57, 60, 162}}</ref> As the rival [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] had seized most of the trade union structures of CPI in Rajasthan, a new [[All India Trade Union Congress]] Rajasthan State Committee was formed in 1965 with Vyas as its secretary.<ref name=b/><ref name="Chatterji1980"/>

In 1973 Vyas was appointed as the editor of the daily newspaper ''Janyug''.<ref name=b/><ref>All India Kisan Sabha. ''[https://kisansabha.org/aiks/resources/conference-documents/twenty-second-national-conference-of-the-all-india-kisan-sabha-proceedings-and-resolutions/ 22nd Conference: Proceedings and Resolutions]''</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Communist Party Publication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmRbAAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Communist Party of India.|page=68}}</ref> He was also in charge of managing the People's Publishing House.<ref name=a/>

Vyas was the sole CPI candidate in Rajasthan in the [[1980 Indian general election]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Link: Indian Newsmagazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49IxAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|page=24}}</ref> He contested the [[Ajmer (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ajmer seat]], and came in third place with 51,524 votes (13.79%).<ref name="Council1980">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India. National Council|title=Review of 1980 Mid-term Lok Sabha Elections and Resolutions Adopted by the National Council of the Communist Party of India, New Delhi, 30 January to 3 February 1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voUwAAAAYAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Communist Party of India|page=55}}</ref>

In the 1980s Vyas emerged as a critic of the party leadership and a defender of the [[S.A. Dange]] line.<ref name=c>{{cite book|title=Pakistan & Gulf Economist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DQ-ZvVNKGfsC|year=1986|publisher=Economist Publications|page=60}}</ref> Whilst Dange himself left CPI to form the [[All India Communist Party]], Vyas and [[Mohit Sen]] remained in CPI and sought to uphold the Dange line within the party.<ref name=c/> Vyas was removed from the CPI National Council at the 13th party congress in 1986.<ref>''India Today''. ''[https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19881130-cpi-a-party-shake-up-in-an-indian-version-of-glasnost-797935-1988-11-30 CPI: A party shake-up in an Indian version of glasnost]''</ref>

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[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Rajasthan MLAs 1952–1957]]
[[Category:1922 births]]
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H.K. Vyas - Revision history

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