Suneet Chopra
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Suneet Chopra is an Indian communist
Communism
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 politician and trade union
Trade union
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ist. He is a Central Committee
Central Committee
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 member of the Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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 and All India Joint Secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers Union.
earlier he was in the Central Committee of the Students Federation of India
Students Federation of India
Students Federation of India is one of the major student organisations in India. SFI is politically linked to the Communist Party of India . Founded in 1970, it claimed a membership strength of nearly 4.2 million school and university students as of 2010.SFI is currently led at the All India level...

 and a founder member of the SFI in Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...

 New Delhi, Later in 1980 he was the founder All India treasurer of the Democratic Youth Federation of India
Democratic Youth Federation of India
Democratic Youth Federation of India , is an Indian left-wing youth organization founded in 1980. DYFI, as it is popularly known, is politically linked to the Communist Party of India .The current general secretary of DYFI is Tapas Sinha and the president is P...

 and became the Vice-President in 1984. Chopra was born on 24 December 1941 in Lahore
Lahore
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. He is also an art critic, writer and poet. He is an alumnus of Modern School
Modern School (New Delhi)
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 and St. Columba's School, Delhi, and St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
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. He taught science at Holland Park School
Holland Park School
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. He read African studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
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, University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

and later regional development at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
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