Com. U.Ramasamy close sympathizer and freedom fighter expired at 10-45 pm on 8th January, 2023. Com. U. Ramasamy was born on 1st July, 1925. He hails from the remote village Edaiseval in Thoothukudi District (earlier Tirunalvelli) near Kanyakumari in Tamilnadu.. He was the eldest of seven brothers and sisters. He was only surviving.. Both Ki. Rajnarayanan,Tamil language folklorist and acclaimed writer and Ku. Alagirisami, Tamil Writer were his immediate neighbours in the village and childhood friends. His eldest son, R.Vijayan, is a member of CPI (M). He had served as Confidential Assistant to Com. Benoy Krishna Chowdhury, Land & Land Reforms Minister, Left Front Government from March, 1984 to April, 1991. Com Ramasamy did his LME (Licentiate in Mechanical Engineering) from Coimbatore some 75 years before. He joined Indian Air Force during the British Rule. After passing LME he joined the Indian Air Force. He was a member of the Secret Cell of CPI in the Indian Air Force. He had participated in the Navy Uprising at Bombay in 1946. CPI was banned in 1948. During this period, the Secret Cell in the Air Force was detected. When he was in London, he was brought to Barrackpore Air Base, arrested and sent to Pune. There he was court marshaled and dismissed from service. He was denied pension though he had completed qualified period of service. Then, he joined the Britannia Engineering Company Limited at Titagarh, West Bengal. He was in the managerial post. Here he came in contact with Com. Md. Amin who suggested him not to disclose his political affiliation. In 1967, when the 1st United Front Government came to power, he disclosed his identity. The management dismissed him from service. He was a member of CPI (M). He organized the bus workers at Barackpore under the leadership of then AITUC and afterwards CITU. He waswell acquainted with Com. Jyoti Bose, Com. Mohan Kumaramangalam (then in CPI),Com. Md Ismail, Com. TaritBaranTopdar, JaminiSaha, Gopal Bose, Shanti RanjanGhatak, PranGourKundu and other comrades. He was very close to Com. Amin and had personal relations with him. He was a State Council Member of CITU. In 1972 his whole family was evicted from Barrackpore. He came over to Bansdroni with his whole family in Kolkata. The entire family consisting of parents and seven brothers and sisters had to suffer a lot both financially and mentally. We had to go through unprecedented turmoil between 1972 and 1977. During this period, he had worked in different managerial capacities in different factories in West Bengal. In 1978 the Left Front Governmentcame to power in Tripura and Com. NripenChakravorty became its Chief Minister. The Tripura Jute Mills was newly established. Com. Chakravorty was looking for an efficient and experienced man to manage the newly constructed jute mill. He had requested Com. Md. Amin for the same. Under the advice of Com. Amin, Com Chakravorty appointed him in the managerial post in the said jute mill considering his vast and long experience. He worked there successfully for a long time. He had developed very good relations with Com. NripenChakravorty and Com. Anil Sarkar during management of the mill. Both are dead now. After retirement from there, he was appointed Superintendent at Youth Hostel of West Bengal at Chennai by the Left Front Government. Com Ramaswami had spent a long time with his son and daughters at Chennai. His wife died in 2010. All his grandchildren are well educated and most of them are well established in India and in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Oman etc He had been living with his eldest son Com. R.Vijayanat Raniganj, Paschim Barddhaman from December, 2017. He was a regular reader of Ganashakti and Peoples' Democracy.