COMRADE Manik Dasgupta, a peasant leader, former CPI(M) state committee member, and long-time secretary of CPI(M) Sonamura sub-divisional committee, passed away on May 4, 2022, in Agartala at the age of 83. He was suffering from kidney ailments. He is survived by his wife, son, and daughter.Dasgupta was born in 1940 in Barai village, Mainamati district (now Bangladesh), and migrated to Tripura, where he became a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) through his involvement in the local peasant movement in 1969.