Charu Mihir Sarkar

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Charu Mihir Sarkar (born 31 August 1924) was an Indian politician who was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1967 to 1971 and served as Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front state cabinets.

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Youth

Sarkar was born on 31 August 1924. [1] He went to school at Malikandah in Dacca District, later receiving education at Surendranath College in Calcutta. [1] He received Master of Arts degree from Calcutta University. [1]

Sarkar as contested the Scheduled Castes seat in the Bongaon constituency in the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, standing as a Praja Socialist Party candidate. [2] He finished in second place with 20,959 votes (29.54%), finishing ahead of former Minister of Pakistan Jogendra Nath Mandal. [2]

Social work

Sarkar was involved in various social welfare activities in his home district. [3] He founded the Ramchandrapur Palli Mongal Vidhyapith, and became its headmaster. [1]

Minister

Sarkar won the Hanskhali (SC) seat in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, standing as a Bangla Congress candidate. [4] He obtained 33,298 votes (67.12%), defeating R.K. Mallick of the Indian National Congress in a straight contest. [4] On 5 July 1967 he was sworn in as a Minister without Portfolio in the United Front state government, after prolonged negotiations on including a minister from Scheduled Castes in the cabinet. [5]

Sarkar retained the Hanskhali (SC) seat in the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, obtaining 25,957 votes (51.75%). [6] Sarkar was named Minister for Community Development in the second United Front government formed in 1969. [7] Sarkar, along with two other Bangla Congress ministers, resigned from his post as Minister on 19 February 1970. [8] On 16 March 1970 [9] Ajoy Mukherjee, the chief minister, presented his resignation, and the government was dismissed on 19 March 1970. [10]

1971 election

Sarkar lost the Hanskhali (SC) seat in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He obtained 4,574 votes (8.79%), finishing in third place behind the INC and CPI(M) candidates. [11]

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  2. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  3. ↑ The Sikh Review. Vol. 14–15. Sikh Cultural Centre. 1966. p. 65.
  4. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Subhash C. Kashyap (1974). The politics of power: defections and state politics in India. National Pub. House. pp. 518, 523.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952–1991. The Committee. p. 379. ISBN   9788176260282.
  8. ↑ Surajit Kumar Dasgupta (1992). West Bengal's Jyoti Basu: a political profile. Gian Pub. House. p. 35. ISBN   978-81-212-0420-0.
  9. ↑ Sitanshu Das (1970). The future for Indian democracy. Fabian Society. p. 30. ISBN   9780716312857.
  10. ↑ Amrita Basu (1 October 1994). Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India. University of California Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN   978-0-520-08919-8.
  11. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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