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First May Day celebration in India
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Singaravelar organised the first May Day celebration in India at Madras and launched the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan.

On 1 May 1923 the communist and labour leader M. Singaravelu Chettiar organised May Day meetings in Madras, regarded as the first May Day celebration in India. The red flag was used for the first time in India on this occasion. On the same day he announced the formation of the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan. The event is an important landmark in the history of the labour and communist movements in India.

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