Birat Chandra Mandal

Birat Chandra Mandal was a member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. He had argued for the constitution of Pakistan to be secular. ^[1]

Career

Mandal represented Bengal Depressed Classes Association at the All India Depressed Classes Association meeting at Shimla in 1930. ^{[2] [3]} He supported the creation of separate electorates for low caste and high caste Hindus. ^[4]

Mandal argued that Mohmmad Ali Jinah had said Pakistan would be a secular state. ^{[5] [6]} On 9 March 1949, he was made the law and labour minister of Pakistan. ^[7] He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. ^[8]

Death

Mandal died on 5 October 1964 in Kolkata, West Bengal. ^[9]

References

1. Manchanda, Rita (2010). States in Conflict with Their Minorities: Challenges to Minority Rights in South Asia. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN   978-93-85985-93-5 . Retrieved 25 April 2020.
2. "Bengal Depressed Classes Association - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
3. "Bengal Depressed Classes Association". Banglapedia. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
4. Sen, Dwaipayan (2018). The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal. Cambridge University Press. p. 78. ISBN   978-1-108-41776-1.
5. "TOBA TEK SINGH The City". The News International. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
6. "Rediscovering the real ideology of Pakistan". Daily Times (Op-ed). 26 March 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
7. "Speech of Birat Chandra Mandal Jogender (Pakistan's first minister of law and labour)" . Retrieved 25 April 2020.
8. Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Debates: Official Report. Manager of Publications. 1954. p. 571.
9. Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. 1964. p. 39. Retrieved 25 April 2020.