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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Dasarath Deb
| image               = Dasarath Deb1946.jpg
| caption             = Dasarath Deb in 1946
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|df=yes|1916|02|02}}
| birth_place         = Boltali Kami, [[Tripura]], [[British India]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1998|10|14|1916|02|02}}
| death_place         = 
| office1             = [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| term1               = 1952–1967, 1971–1977
| constituency1       = [[Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tripura East]]
| constituency        = [[Ramchandraghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ramchandraghat]]
| office              = Chief Minister of Tripura
| term                = 10 April 1993 – 11 March 1998
| predecessor         = [[Samir Ranjan Barman]]
| successor           = [[Manik Sarkar]]
| party               = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| nationality         = [[India]]n
| office2             = Member of [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]]
| term2               = 1977–1998
| constituency2       = [[Ramchandraghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ramchandraghat]]
| order               = 8th
}}

'''Dasarth Deb''' (2 February 1916 – 14 October 1998) was a political leader in the [[India]]n 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 (Ashoka Road)|All India Kisan Sabha]] and first and yet only Tiprasa chief minister of Tripura.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Samsad Bengali Charitabidhan (Vol. 2)|publisher=Sishu Bal Sahitya Samsad|year=1996|isbn=978-81-7955-292-6|editor-last=Basu|editor-first=Anjali|location=Kolkata|pages=161}}</ref>

==Early life==
Dasaratha Debbarma, a legendary leader<ref>{{cite news |title= A legendary revolutionary "Dasaratha Debbarma" |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/article30248513.ece/ |work= The Hindu |access-date=7 April 2021|date= 7 November 1998}}</ref> of the Indian Communist movement was born 2n february 1916 into a poor peasant family in remote Boltali village in the present day [[Khowai district]] of [[Tripura]].<ref name="fl">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fline/fl1523/15231090.htm |title=A legendary revolutionary-Dasarath Deb, 1916-1998 |publisher=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |date=7–20 November 1998 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104004231/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fline/fl1523/15231090.htm |archive-date=4 November 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> Since childhood, Dasaratha was very eager to obtain education but it was hardly affordable for his poor family to send him to town for education. Due to his indomitable eagerness, he was later admitted in Khowai primary school. And after he passed matriculation examinations, he was admitted in Brindaban College of Habiganj of Sylhet District under erstwhile East Bengal, as Tripura had no college then. After passing Intermediate and BA, Debbarma got admitted in Calcutta University for MA. Simultaneously, he pursued a law degree.

In 1940, CPI Comilla District Committee working under the Bengal Provincial Committee initiated formation of a Party unit in Tripura. The first unit of the Party in Agartala was formed with some local youths including Comrade Biren Datta who, besides Debbarma, was elected to the first Lok Sabha from Tripura. The Agartala Branch of CPI first started building up mass organisations with the working people of Agartala, mostly Bengalis. It was decided that an organisation would be formed with the core objective of spreading education among the tribal people. Dasarath Debbarma was contacted in Kolkata and apprised of the mission. Soon, he came to Tripura, leaving his post-graduate study never to go back again.

==Political career==
In 1948, he formed Ganamukti Parishad, which was engaged in an armed struggle from 1948 to 1950. In 1950, he along with his followers, joined the [[Communist Party of India]]. He became a member of the central committee of the party in 1951. After the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|party split in 1964]], he joined [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. In 1964, he founded the [[Ganamukti Parishad|Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad]], a frontal organization of CPI(M).<ref name=":0" /> 
In the heady days of the 1930s and 40s, Deb completed his education from Sylhet and later Calcutta. He took to spreading education among tribal through the Janasikhya Samiti. 

He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] in 1952, 1957, 1962 and 1971 from [[Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tripura East constituency]]. In 1978, he was elected for the first time in Tripura [[Vidhan Sabha]] from [[Ramchandraghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ramchandraghat]] constituency and became the Minister for Education in the first Left Front government. He was the deputy chief minister in the second Left Front government from 1983 to 1988. In 1988, he became the secretary of the state unit of CPI(M).  After the defeat of the Left Front in 1988 elections, he became the leader of the opposition in Tripura Vidhan Sabha from 1988 to 1993.<ref name=":0" />

On 10 April 1993 he became the chief minister of the third Left Front government. He was in office till 11 March 1998. He declined to contest the Vidhan Sabha election in 1998 on health grounds.<ref name="fl" /><ref name=":0" />

==Works==
*''Mukti Parishader Itikatha''
*''Samantatantrik Byabasthar Biruddhe Mukti Parishader Sangram''
*''Kokborder jonyo bangla horof keno chai''
*''kokborok lekhar pothrekha''

==Notes==
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