1. Brinda Karat is an Indian Marxist politician and former member of Rajya Sabha for West Bengal, serving as a Communist Party of India representative from 11 April 2005 to 2011.
12 Facts About Brinda Karat
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Brinda Karat has been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association from 1993 to 2004 and thereafter its vice-president.
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Brinda Karat's mother was Bengali, and her father was a Punjabi refugee from Lahore in the newly created Pakistan.
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Brinda Karat started her political work as a student activist since under the guidance of the Party she enrolled as a student in Calcutta University.
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Brinda Karat was writing for the Party weekly and later became a full-time worker there.
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Brinda Karat had a clear perspective of the area of work to assign workers.
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Brinda Karat grew to be active with worker's movements and the Indian women's movements.
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Brinda Karat is a prominent campaigner for gender issues and has fought within the party for adequate representation for women in its leadership.
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In 2005, she was elected to the Politburo of the Communist Party of India, the highest decision-making body of the party and Brinda Karat is its first woman member.
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Brinda Karat is married to Prakash Karat in 7 November 1975, a Keralite by origin and a prominent CPI leader.
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Brinda Karat is an aunt of the historian Vijay Prashad.
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Brinda Karat is the author of Survival and Emancipation: Notes from Indian Women's Struggles, a work addressing the challenges faced by women's movements in India from a left perspective.