Rupnarayan Roy | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1946 - 1947 | |
| Constituency | Dinajpur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1908(assumed) Phulbari Upazila,Dinajpur |
| Died | 24 March 1974 Lalpurdanga,Amrabari Mauza,Phulbari Upazila,Dinajpur |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (until 1947) Communist Party of Pakistan (after 1947) National Awami Party [1] (during ban on CPP) Communist Party of Bangladesh (from 1968) |
Rupnarayan Roy was a veteran communist and peasant leader of undivided Bengal and then Bangladesh. One of the three first communist legislators who were elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946. [2] He died a martyr,some miscreants entered his house,called him from his bed at night and beheaded him. [3]
A marxist revolutionary,one of the top organizers of Tebhaga Movement,leader of anti-British movement,MLA of undivided Bengal,organizer of CPB-NAP-BSU led guerrilla force in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[ citation needed ]