Niranjan Sengupta

Last updated

Niranjan Sengupta
নিরঞ্জন সেনগুপ্ত
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1957 - 1962

Niranjan Sengupta (26 July 1904 - 4 September 1969) was a Bengali Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist).He was born in Jhalokathi district of Barisal. [1]

Contents

Revolutionary activities

The first elected student union in India was at Ripon College with Niranjan Sengupta as its president. Niranjan was a leader of the Barisal branch of Dhaka Anushilan Samiti. In 1929, he was one of the leaders who led to the formation of the neo-violence confederation. In 1930, in connection with the Mechuabazar Bomb Case, he was arrested with 23 others. In 1932, he was sent to the Andaman Cellular jail with other revolutionaries where he became acquainted with Communist ideas. [1]

Later he became a Marxist and joined the Communist Party of India in 1938. He was one of the seven members of an inner committee set up by the Communist Party of India Politburo. [2] He also had important role during the inner-party struggle of this communist party. He was elected as a member of Legislative Assembly of West Bengal in 1957 election from Bijpur. [3] After the split in the Communist Party of India, Niranjan remained with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). He was also a minister in the coalition ministry of West Bengal in 1967 - 1968 and 1969. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Sengupta, Subodhchandra; Basu, Anjali, eds. (1976). Samsad Bengali Charitabidhan (Vol. 1). Kolkata: Sishu Sahitya Samsad. p. 362. ISBN   978-81-7955-292-6.
  2. ↑ Jyoti Basu. "Memories: The Ones That Have Lasted, Part XI: I am Arrested". Ganashakti. Translated by Dasgupta, Abhijit. Archived from the original on 22 February 2001.
  3. ↑ "Assembly Election Results of Bijpur Assembly Seat" . Retrieved 26 February 2022.


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Communist Party of India (Marxist)</span> Political party in India

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from CPI in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant fraction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jyoti Basu</span> Indian Communist politician (1914-2010)

Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the member of Politburo of the party since its formation in 1964 till 2008. He was also the member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times. In his political career, spanning over seven decades, he was noted to have been the India's longest serving chief minister in an elected democracy, at the time of his resignation. He was proposed for the post of Prime Minister of India for four times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dasarath Deb</span> Indian politician

Dasarth Debbarma was an Indian Communist politician in the Indian state of Tripura. He was chief minister of Tripura from 1993 to 1998. He was a leader of the Ganamukti Parishad and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was also the vice-president of All India Kisan Sabha and first and yet only Tiprasa chief minister of Tripura.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nripen Chakraborty</span>

Nripen Chakraborty was an Indian Communist politician who served as the Chief minister of Tripura state from 1978 to 1988. Nripen Chakraborty was involved in the Communist movement in India for six decades.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ganesh Ghosh</span> Indian politician (1900–1994)

Ganesh Ghosh was an Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.

Mohammed Amin was an Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the largest communist party in India. He was a Vice President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.

Ajoy Kumar Ghosh was an Indian freedom fighter and prominent leader of the Communist Party of India. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1954 to 1962.

Bijpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hare Krishna Konar</span> Indian revolutionary and politician (1915–1974)

Hare Krishna Konar was an Indian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, charismatic peasant leader and politician. Konar was a founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the figurehead behind India's first land reform, and the chief architect of the West Bengal land distribution. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he became one of the principal leaders of the Communist movements in India. In 1932, due to his involvement in the Begut Robbery Case of the Jugantar Party, Konar was deported to the Cellular Jail of the Andaman for 6 years at the age of 18, there he took part in the first hunger strike and in 1935 he founded the Communist Consolidation and led the historical second hunger strike.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gautam Deb</span> Indian politician

Gautam Deb is an Indian politician. He served as the Housing Minister in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government of West Bengal. He was a MLA, elected from Hasnabad constituency defeating, Rafiqul Islam Mondal of the Trinamool Congress in 2006 and 2001, and of Congress in 1996, Anath Bandhu Mitra of Congress in 1991 and Ananta Roy of Congress in 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bankim Mukherjee</span> Indian politician

Bankim Mukherjee was an Indian Bengali communist politician. He had taken part in the Civil Disobedience Movement, the Indian Communist movement and had organized various trade unions and Kisan sabhas. His wife Shanta Bhalerao was the Assistant Secretary of All India Trade Union Congress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sudhangshu Dasgupta</span> Indian politician

Sudhangshu Dasgupta was an Indian communist and freedom fighter. He was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and founder of the Desh Hitaishee, journal of West Bengal Communist Party. Dasgupta joined Communist Party of India in 1936.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Surjya Kanta Mishra</span> Indian politician

Surjya Kanta Mishra is an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as Minister of Health and Minister in-charge of Land & Land Reforms, Panchayats & Rural Development in the Left Front governments of West Bengal and was the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal State Committee between 2015 and 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Somnath Lahiri</span> Indian writer and politician (1901-1984)

Somnath Lahiri was an Indian statesman, writer and a leader of Communist Party of India. He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India from Bengal. He was later elected as a Member of West Bengal Legislative assembly from 1957 to 1977 and also served as a minister between 1967 and 1970.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election</span> Assembly Election of West Bengal, India

Legislative Assembly elections was held in the Indian state of West Bengal on 14 June 1977. The polls took place after the ousting of Indira Gandhi's government at the Centre. The Left Front won a landslide victory. The 1977 election marked the beginning of the 34-year Left Front rule in West Bengal, with Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Jyoti Basu leading the first Left Front cabinet. The election finally put to rest, the decade-long political instability that had begun since 1967.

Professor Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya was an Indian politician and scholar. He served as general secretary of the Workers Party of India. He served as a Minister in both of the United Front governments in West Bengal.

Bibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta was an Indian freedom fighter and politician.

The Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry was the coalition government that ruled the Indian state of West Bengal for 13 months, 1969–1970. The Second United Front Cabinet was formed after the 1967 First United Front Cabinet had been dismissed in 1967, President's Rule introduced and a mid-term election held in 1969. The United Front got a renewed popular mandate in the 1969 election, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) calling the shots but with a non-leftist Chief Minister. The 13-month reign of the Second United Front Cabinet was marked by the struggle for comprehensive land reform, labour disputes, political violence and coalition infighting.

Pramod Ranjan Sengupta প্রমোদরঞ্জন সেনগুপ্ত was a Marxist intellectual and Bengali revolutionary, attached with of Indian National Army led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdur Rezzak Khan</span> Indian politician

Abdur Rezzak Khan (1900–1984) Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1969.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.