S.V. Deshpande was a freedom fighter and acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of India in 1931 to 1933 when others were in Meerut jail.[1][2] And he was the president of AITUC from 1929 to 1931.[3][4][5]

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  1. ^ "20th Party Congress, Hyderabad". newageweekly.in.
  2. ^ "generalsecretaries".
  3. ^ Kooiman, Dick (1980). "Bombay Communists and the 1924 Textile Strike". Economic and Political Weekly. 15 (29): 1223–1236. JSTOR 4368873 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ "AITUC booklet on the occasion of completing its hundred years on 31st October 2020". wftucentral.org. 30 October 2020.
  5. ^ "7. The Decline of Indian Communism". Communism and Nationalism in India: M.N. Roy and Comintern Policy, 1920-1939. Princeton University Press. 2015. pp. 144–163. doi:10.1515/9781400869329-011. ISBN 978-1-4008-6932-9.