Singaravelar biography of rory

Freedom fighter and one of the founding member of Communist Party of India

Malayapuram Singaravelu (18 February 1860 – 11 February 1946), also known as M.

Singaravelu and Singaravelar, was a pioneer in more than one field in India. In 1918, he founded the first trade union in India. On 1 May 1923 he organised the first ever celebration of May Day in the country. Singaravelar was a major leader of the Indian independence movement, initially under the leadership of Gandhi, but later, joining the budding communist movement.

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In 1925, he became one of the founding fathers of the Communist Party of India; and chaired its inaugural convention in Kanpur. Though the British Government arrested him along with other leaders on charges of conspiring to wage war against the Crown, he was set free, soon after, on account of his failing health.

Singaravelar was also a path-breaking social reformer who in his early life took to Buddhism, seeing it as a weapon again