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| successor = Harolal Haldar<br />
| term1 = 1936<br />
| office2 = President of [[All India Kisan Sabha]]<br />
| office1 = Member of [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term = 1952–1957; 1957–1961<br />
| citizenship = [[India]]<br />
| spouse = [[Shanta Bhalerao]]<br />
| predecessor = Constituency created<br />
| constituency1 = Asansol Labour Constituency<br />
| native_name = বঙ্কিম মুখোপাধ্যায়<br />
| office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[Vidhan Sabha]]<br />
| constituency = [[Budge Budge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Budge Budge]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|11|15|1897|6|5|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Belur, Howra<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|6|5|df=y}}<br />
| image = Bankim Mukherjee.jpg<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| term2 = 1943<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India]]<br />
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'''Bankim Mukherjee''' (1896–1961) was an Indian Bengali communist politician. He had taken part in the [[Civil disobedience movement|Civil Disobedience Movement]], the Indian Communist movement and had organized various trade unions and Kisan sabhas (Farmers' organization). His wife [[Shanta Bhalerao]] was the Assistant Secretary of [[All India Trade Union Congress]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=India|first=Communist Party of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyUFAAAAMAAJ&q=shanta|title=Immortal Heroes: Lives of Communist Leaders|date=1975|publisher=Communist Party of India|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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Mukherjee became political active in the 1920s, taking part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and jute mill workers union struggles in [[Bengal]]. In 1921 Mukherjee went to [[Etawah]] with his friend [[Radharaman Mitra]] and participated in [[Non-cooperation movement]]. They were arrested and imprisoned. After being released from jail. he returned to Bengal following the order of [[Motilal Nehru]] and started working for [[Swaraj Party|Congress Swaraj Party]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh C Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|location=Kolkata|pages=326}}</ref><br />
[[File:Muzaffar Ahmed, Bankim Mukherjee, PC Joshi, Somnath Lahiri1937.jpg|left|thumb|[[Muzaffar Ahmed (politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]], Bankim Mukherjee, [[Puran Chand Joshi|PC Joshi]], [[Somnath Lahiri]] at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] 1937]]<br />
He got attracted to communism after meeting [[Bhupendranath Datta|Bhupendranath Dutta]]. He got involved in farmers and workers movement. He had organized worker strikes with [[Abdul Momin (trade union activist)|Abdul Momin]] and [[Abdur Rezzak Khan]]. He became a member of the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1936. In 1937 he was elected to the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]], becoming the first member of the Communist Party of India to be elected to legislature. After the First All India Congress of CPI in 1043, he was elected the President of [[All India Kisan Sabha]]. He also served as vice-president and general secretary of the [[All India Kisan Sabha]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAFBW743Bi4C&pg=PA568 |title = Communism in India|last1 = Windmiller|first1 = Marshall|year = 2011}}</ref><br />
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He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from [[Budge Budge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Budge Budge]] in 1952 and 1957.<ref name="vidhansabha1952">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="vidhansabha1957">{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 1 November 2014}}</ref><br />
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He died on 15 November 1961 at the age of 64.<br />
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