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{{Infobox Indian politician
| honorific_prefix = [[Comrade]]
| name = Baneswar Saikia বাণেশ্বৰ শইকীয়া
| birth_date= {{birth date and age|df=yes|1931|10|8}}
| birth_place = Dumdumia Village, [[Nagaon]], [[Assam]], [[India]]
| alma_mater = Dhing K.B. High School, [[Cotton College]], [[Darrang College]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Politician, 
Professor, 
Social Worker, 
Marxist Economist, 
Columnist, 
Writer, 
Lawyer
| office = [[Assam]] State Secretary of [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]
| term_start = 1968
| term_end = 1975
| office1 = Member of [[Assam Legislative Assembly]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiavotes.com/ac/info?stateac=1&eid=21|title = IndiaVotes | India's largest election database}}</ref>
| term_start1 = 1978
| term_end1 = 1983
| constituency1 = [[Batadroba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]
| office2 = [[Assam]] State Secretary of [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]
| term_start2 = 1979
| term_end2 = 1994
| office3 = General Secretary of [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcpicommunist.in/p/leadership.html|title=Rcpicommunist.in -}}</ref>
| term_start3 = 1994
| term_end3 = 2000
| predecessor3 = Rasik Bhatt
| successor3 = [[Bimalananda Mukherjee]]
| office4 = General Secretary of [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcpicommunist.in/p/leadership.html|title=Rcpicommunist.in -}}</ref>
| term_start4 = 2003
| term_end4 = 2006
| predecessor4 = [[Bimalananda Mukherjee]]
| successor4 = [[Biren Deka]]
| party = [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]
| spouse = Nirada (Deka) Saikia
| children = 3 daughters
| website =
| footnotes =
| date =
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| source =
| image = Professor_Baneswar_Saikia.jpg|caption=Baneswar Saikia in 2017|parents=Late Tularam Saikia (Father) 
Late Sadari Saikia (Mother)
}}

Born in [[Nagaon]], on 8 October 1931, Baneswar Saikia ([[Assamese language|Assamese]]: বাণেশ্বৰ শইকীয়া) is an Indian [[Communism|communist]] politician. He belongs to [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcNcCgAAQBAJ&q=baneswar+saikia+rcpi&pg=PT460|title=A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900|last=Saikia|first=Arupjyoti|date=2015-08-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317325598|language=en}}</ref> He joined the party in 1947, when he was in the eighth standard. Baneswar Saikia is the son of Late Tularam Saikia and Late Sadari Saikia. He is a former lawyer, a former MLA,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/assam/assembly-constituencies/1978-election-results.html|title=Assam Assembly Election Results in 1978|website=www.elections.in|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref> a retired professor of [[Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College]] of [[Nagaon]], the first Head and the founder of the Department of Economics<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adpcollege.ac.in/?page_id=371|title=Economics {{!}} Anandaram Dhekial Phookan|website=adpcollege.ac.in|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-04}}</ref> of the same college, a politician, a [[Marxian economics|Marxist economist]], a writer and a social worker. He is also a former State Secretary of Assam State Committee and a former General Secretary of [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India|RCPI]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcNcCgAAQBAJ&q=baneswar+saikia+rcpi&pg=PT460|title=A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900|last=Saikia|first=Arupjyoti|date=2015-08-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317325598|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcpicommunist.in/p/leadership.html|title=Leadership|website=www.rcpicommunist.in|access-date=2018-01-24}}</ref> Baneswar Saikia is able to read, speak and write in Assamese, English and Bengali.

He retired from [[Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College|ADP College]] in 1991. In May 2016, [[Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College|ADP College]] Retired Teachers Forum was formed. Professor Baneswar Saikia was elected as the adviser of the association.<ref>http://silchar.com/adp-college-retired-teachers%C2%92-forum-formed/{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Professor Saikia was a student activist and presently is one of the Central Committee members of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India|RCPI]]. During his school days, Saikia was influenced by [[Marxism]]. He started his political career as a students' political activist, as a member of the Assam Provincial Students' Federation (APSF). He was also involved in the RCPI-led uprisings in Assam that took place between 1948 and 1952.

== Works ==
'''<big>Books</big>'''
* Bharatar Biplabi Communist Party: Gathan aru Gatidhara (ভাৰতৰ বিপ্লৱী কমিউনিষ্ট পাৰ্টি: গঠন আৰু গতিধাৰা) ([[Revolutionary Communist Party of India|RCPI]], Assam State Committee, Guwahati, 28 August 2003)
* Arab Jagatat Biplovar Dhou (আৰৱ জগতত বিপ্লৱৰ ঢৌ) ([[Revolutionary Communist Party of India|RCPI]], Assam State Committee, Guwahati, 2015)
*
* Pratyoy Aaru Anvexon: Baneswar Xaikiar Nirbachita Rachana Xangrah (প্ৰত্যয় আৰু অন্বেষণ: বাণেশ্বৰ শইকীয়াৰ নিৰ্বাচিত ৰচনা সংগ্ৰহ)- A collection of selected writings of Baneswar Saikia, edited by Dr. Ranjit Sabhapandit (Assam Publishing Company, 2017) <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B072B8ZJ2F/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500913528&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX118_SY170_QL70&keywords=baneswar+saikia&dpPl=1&dpID=41pjZlIexnL&ref=plSrch|title=Pratyoy Aaru Anvexon By Assam Publishing Company|last=Saikia|first=Baneswar|date=January 2017|publisher=Assam Publishing Company|editor-last=Savapandit|editor-first=Dr R.|language=Assamese}}</ref>

== References ==
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