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'''K.S. Vasan''' was an [[India]]n communist politician and [[trade union]]ist from the [[Kolar Gold Fields]].<ref>Communist Party of India. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Po6NAAAAMAAJ Documents of the Twelfth Congress of the Communist Party of India, Adhikari Nagar, Varanasi, 22 to 28 March 1982]''. New Delhi: Communist Party of India, 1982. p. 34</ref><ref>Sarkar, Subodh Chandra. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=oc05AQAAIAAJ Indian Parliament and State Legislatures, Being the Supplement to Hindustan Year Book, 1952]''. Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar, 1952. p. 79</ref> who organized the first leftist trade union in the gold fields during the 1940s.<ref name="w"/> Vasan, then a young man, arrived at the Kolar Gold Fields from [[Madras]] and went on to build a union that mobilized labourers from thirteen different mining companies.<ref name="h">''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192719/http://hindu.com/2001/05/01/stories/0401402a.htm Titans who built the Left edifice in State]''</ref> He was arrested as he led a workers revolt against the British authorities.<ref>''The Hindu''. ''[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/veteran-trade-union-leader-dead/article2961881.ece Veteran trade union leader dead]''</ref>

Vasan later teamed up with [[M. C. Narasimhan]] and V.M. Govindan. Together they were called the 'Red Triad'.<ref name="w">White, Bridget. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2iFRgQXTbeAC&pg=PA46 Kolar Gold Fields: Down Memory Lane ; Paeans to Lost Glory!!]'' Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, 2010. p. 46</ref><ref name="h"/> The Red Triad combine managed to achieve several victories for the miners, such as wage revision.<ref name="h"/>

As of 1963, Vasan was the president of the Mysore Mine Workers Union,<ref>United States. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ohYEAAAAMAAJ Directory of Labor Organizations, Asia and Australasia]''. [Washington]: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1963. p. U-14</ref> which was affiliated with the [[All India Trade Union Congress]] (AITUC).<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PvmwAAAAIAAJ Economic and Political Weekly]'', Vol. 33. Sameeksha Trust, 1998. p. 1472</ref>

During the 1952 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election, Vasan contested the Kolar Gold Fields assembly seat. The constituency had two seats, one general and one reserved for [[Scheduled Caste]]s; Vasan chose to contest the general seat,<ref name="h"/> and was elected with 18,029 votes. P.M. Swamidorai of the [[Scheduled Castes Federation]] won the other seat.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_MYSORE.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MYSORE]''</ref>

When the Communist Party of India split, Vasan sided with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref>Chatterji, Rakhahari. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=quorAAAAIAAJ Unions, Politics, and the State: A Study of Indian Labour Politics]''. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1980. p. 47</ref>

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