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Harkishan Singh Surjeet

1916 - 2008

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Harkishan Singh Surjeet (23 March 1916 – 1 August 2008) was an Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the party's Polit Bureau from 1964 to 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harkishan Singh Surjeet has received more than 346,021 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Harkishan Singh Surjeet is the 17,905th most popular politician (down from 15,950th in 2019), the 1,040th most popular biography from India (down from 791st in 2019) and the 278th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harkishan Singh Surjeet ranks 17,905 out of 19,576Before him are Luca Zaia, Isabella Lövin, David McAllister, Simon Cameron, Hubertus Heil, and Alberto Gonzales. After him are Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Don McKinnon, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Zilya Valeeva, Manohar Parrikar, and Marion Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Harkishan Singh Surjeet ranks 310Before him are Paul Emery, Mark Stevens, Nilufer Hanımsultan, Ruth R. Benerito, Irene Worth, and Stan Cullis. After him are Esther Victoria Abraham, Horton Foote, Eddie Arcaro, Raúl Héctor Castro, Leslie Thorne, and William B. Saxbe. Among people deceased in 2008, Harkishan Singh Surjeet ranks 389Before him are Don LaFontaine, Earl Palmer, Levi Stubbs, John S. Bull, Suzanne Tamim, and Lois Nettleton. After him are Alexey Prokurorov, Larry Norman, Hrvoje Ćustić, Karen Asrian, François Sterchele, and Malalai Kakar.

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In India

Among people born in India, Harkishan Singh Surjeet ranks 1,040 out of 1,861Before him are Daler Mehndi (1967), Mahesh Babu (1975), Sumaira Abdulali (1961), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), and Aditya Chopra (1971). After him are Meenakshi Seshadri (1963), Manohar Parrikar (1955), Esther Victoria Abraham (1916), Ramanathan Krishnan (1937), Farah Khan (1965), and Indrani Rahman (1930).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Harkishan Singh Surjeet ranks 278Before him are Amarinder Singh (1942), V. N. Janaki (1923), Manohar Lal Khattar (1954), Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927), Ravi Shankar Prasad (1954), and Ravi Shastri (1962). After him are Manohar Parrikar (1955), Ahmed Patel (1949), Akhilesh Yadav (1973), Nasir-ud-Daulah (1794), Gopalkrishna Gandhi (1945), and Om Birla (1962).