Anil Kumar Chanda | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 1967-1971 | |
Succeeded by | Saradish Roy |
Constituency | Bolpur,West Bengal |
In office 1952-1962 | |
Succeeded by | Sisir Kumar Das |
Constituency | Birbhum,West Bengal |
Personal details | |
Born | Silchar,Assam,British India | 23 May 1906
Died | 21 April 1976 69) [1] | (aged
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Spouse | Rani Chanda |
Children | Abhijit Chanda |
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Anil Kumar Chanda (23 May 1906 - 21 April 1976) was elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was the Deputy Minister of External Affairs and later Deputy Minister,Works,Housing and Supply Ministry in Nehru Ministry. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked as chief secretary to Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan. He and his wife author Rani Chanda (1912-1997) were the closest associates of Rabindranath Tagore during the last decade of his life. Rani Chanda gifted few beautiful memoirs of that period to the Bengali readers. They had one son,Abhijit Chanda. They eventually settled in Shantiniketan. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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