It is nine years since Comrade Suseela Gopalan, the fighter for the working class and especially for women, left us. She passed away on 19th December 2001.  Born in a communist family, she got acquainted with the legendary leader of the working class, Comrade A.K.Gopalan during his underground days and later got married  to him.

During the period as Member  of Parliament, she helped and took up the cases of Telecom Employees very effectively and represented many of our cases. She raised many important issues in the Parliament also. After her tenure as M.P., she became Minister in the Kerala Government and did a good job. She is the founder President of  All India Democratic Womens Association and continued as such for a long period.  When as the Circle Secretary of AITEE Union Class III in Kerala Circle, we decided to start a Mahila Committee in the union and held a Mahila Convention in Trichur  in 1977, Com.Susheela Gopalan was invited to inaugurate the convention. Many of our comrades in the union felt that only very few, say some twenty or thirty women  may attend. But surprisingly more than 300 lady comrades attended and a Mahila Committee for the Union was formed. Probably, it may be for the first time that such a committee was formed in the union. It still continues to effectively work in Kerala. Com. Susheela congratulated all of us for the effort to bring more lady comrades in to union activities.

On this 9th death anniversary we pay our respectful homage to our dear comrade Susheela Gopalan. VAN Namboodiri.