Suresh Shyamlal Gupta

Suresh Shyamlal Gupta is an Indian politician, trade union leader, and social activist. He is the founder and president of the All Indian Cine Workers Association (AICWA). He is the Mumbai President for the youth wing of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), and one of the committee members of the Government of Maharashtra in the area of industries, labor, and energy.

As president of the INTUC body, he busted an illegal kidney racket at Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai in 2016. As president of AICWA, he objected to the Netflix web series Sacred Games for insulting former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He announced a ban on Pakistani artists and singers in India following the 2019 Pulwama terror attack, and an industry boycott of singer Mika Singh for performing at a wedding event in Pakistan after the Pulwama attack.

In 2013, he was appointed as the Mumbai President of the Youth Wing of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). In 2014, he became the National Secretary of Youth Wing of the Indian National Trade Union Congress.

In 2016, he established the non-profit All Indian Cine Workers Association (AlCWA). He took the initiative to sort out the issues of artists, workers, or laborers of the Indian Film Industry with the support of MLA Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil (Opposition Leader – Maharashtra Legislative Assembly) in presence of Sambhaji Nilgekar (Labour Minister of Maharashtra) and other higher officers. At the meeting, the Government of Maharashtra decided to form a committee for welfare and rights of artists, workers, and laborers in Indian Film Industry, in which he became the employee representative of that committee.

AICWA aims at taking the voice of the workers to the government and fighting for their rights and heeding to the needs of the workers. Under his presidentship, the organization has raised issues and made demands related to the Indian film and television industry.

After a complaint was filed in Kolkata in July 2018 against the Netflix web series Sacred Games, its showrunners and lead actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, for allegedly insulting former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in one scene,Gupta, as President of AICWA, filed a complaint at Chembur police station, A Public Interest Litigation on the matter was later filed in the Delhi High Court.

Following the 2019 Pulwama attack attack by Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir, AICWA announced a complete ban on Pakistani actors and artists. Gupta said the attack was "cowardly" and the most shameful act Pakistan has ever done, it will take strict action against anyone working with Pakistani artists. In reciprocation of the ban, a petition was filed in the Lahore High Court seeking a ban on the trade of Indian films in Pakistan.

AICWA protested against singer Mika Singh's performance at an event in Pakistan in August 2019, and boycotted him from any association with film production houses, music companies and online music content providers. The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) also issued the ban against him and his crew who performed at the event, but revoked the ban after he apologized.

The matter of art director Raju Sapte's suicide was raised in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on AICWA's demand, following which a meeting was held under the leadership of Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil and State Home Minister Satej Patil, and orders were issued for strict action against the culprits.

Suresh Gupta busted a kidney racket at Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai in 2016. His efforts have led to a change in the law on kidney transplantation in Maharashtra. This incident resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people, including Hiranandani Hospital CEO Sujit Chatterjee, several doctors and agents.

Certain types of keywords were being used for illegal kidneys in Hiranandani Hospital, after which many illegal kidney rackets were busted in Maharashtra and many places in India. Fraudulent documents prepared for donors and recipients for an illegal kidney transplant that showed fraudulent family ties between them. High-profile people were involved in this case. Key witness and victim Sundar Singh Jatav, through a friend, approached Suresh Gupta for help uncovering this complex kidney trafficking network. Soon after the FIR was registered, Sundar started receiving death threats.

After Jatav was found hanging at his home in 2016, Gupta demanded a CBI inquiry as he claimed it was not a case of suicide. Gupta alleged that bloodstains were found on the floor of Singh's residence.