K. N. Joglekar

K. N. Joglekar (died November 1970)^[1] was an Indian politician and one of the founding members of Communist Party of India.^[2] He later joined All India Forward Bloc, of which he became the General Secretary from 1948 to 1952.^[3] Then he formed Forward Communist Party; in 1952 this party merged with the Communist Party of India.

Portrait of 25 of the Meerut prisoners taken outside the jail. Back row (left to right): K. N. Sehgal, S. S. Josh, H. L. Hutchinson, Shaukat Usmani, B. F. Bradley, A. Prasad, P. Spratt, G. Adhikari. Middle row: R. R. Mitra, Gopen Chakravarti, Kishori Lal Ghosh, L. R. Kadam, D. R. Thengdi, Goura Shanker, S. Bannerjee, K. N. Joglekar, P. C. Joshi, Muzaffar Ahmad. Front row: M. G. Desai, D. Goswami, R. S. Nimbkar, S. S. Mirajkar, S. A. Dange, S. V. Ghate, Gopal Basak.

In 1929, he was jailed in the Meerut Conspiracy Case.^[4]