V.D. Chitale

Vishnu Dattatraya Chitale was an Indian politician. Chitale was a prominent leader of the Communist Party of India in Poona city.[1] He was a Sanskrit scholar.[2]

V.D. Chitale
Member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly
In office
1957–1962
Succeeded byBaburao Narayanrao Sanas
ConstituencyKasba Peth
Personal details
Born
Vishnu Dattatraya Chitale

1906
Died1961
Political partyCommunist Party of India

Chitale was born in 1906.[3] At the 1940 Ramgarh session of the Indian National Congress, Chitale and fellow communist delegate K.M. Ashraf proposed an amendment to the main resolution, calling for 'immediate launching of the struggle' for independence and rejecting any compromise with British rule.[4]

Chitale led the third 1955 satyagrah to Goa, leading a thousand volunteers in a march to demand integration of Portuguese-controlled Goa with India.[5][6][7][8] Portuguese military forces opened fire, injuring Chitale among many others.[8][9]

Chitale was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the 1957 election, from the Kasba Peth constituency.[10] He was part of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti bloc in the Legislative Assembly.[1] He died in 1961.[3][1]

References
  1. V. M. Sirsikar (1965). Political Behaviour in India: A Case Study of the 1962 General Elections. Manaktalas. p. 51, 117.
  2. Communist Party of India. Congress (1964). Proceedings of the ... Congress of the Communist Party of India. The Party. p. 210.
  3. Library of Congress (1965). Subject Catalog. The Library. p. 167.
  4. Marshall Windmiller (2011). Communism in India. University of California Press. pp. 182–. GGKEY:NSY99CAKNFU.
  5. Leo Lawrence (1963). Nehru Seizes Goa. Pageant Press. p. 74.
  6. Rajan Narayan (2012). Sampoorna Swaraj: The Story of Goa's Liberation Struggle, 1928-1961. Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Goa. p. 51.
  7. Current Events. July 1960. p. 58.
  8. Pandurang Ganapati Patil (2002). The Bountiful Banyan: A Biography of Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil. Macmillan India. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-333-93689-4.
  9. Goa Today. Goa Publications. 1980. p. 13.
  10. India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1957). India, a Reference Annual. Research and Reference Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. p. 596.
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