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| name = Bidya Debbarma
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|04|11}}
| birth_place = Behlabari, [[Khowai]]
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|06|18|1916|04|11}}
| death_place = [[Agartala]]
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]]
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| term_start1 = 1967
| term_end1 = 1998
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| office2 = [[Tripura Legislative Assembly|Minister in Charge of Tribal Welfare]]
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| term2 = 1977
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| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
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'''Bidya Chandra Debbarma''' (11 April 1916, Behalabari – 18 June 2010, [[Agartala]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Veteran Tripura Communist leader dead |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/veteran-tripura-communist-leader-dead/story-24axS4HxOTNU2eTLrB4goN.html |accessdate=13 April 2020 |work=Hindustan Times |agency=IANS |date=18 June 2010 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="pd"/><ref name="kh">{{cite news
|url=http://www.khabarexpress.com/18/06/2010/Veteran-Tripura-Communist-leader-dead-news_165809.html
|title=Veteran Tripura Communist leader dead
|date=18 June 2010
|work=Khabar Express
|accessdate=9 July 2010}}</ref>) was a [[communist]] politician from the [[India]]n state of [[Tripura]]. A prominent leader of the communist movement in Tripura, Debbarma spent a total of nine years in jail and 13 years as an underground activist.<ref name="pd">{{cite news
|url=http://pd.cpim.org/2010/0627_pd/06272010_18.html
|title=Comrade Bidya Debbarma
|date=27 June 2010
|work=People's Democracy
|publisher=Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|accessdate=9 July 2010
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615151911/http://pd.cpim.org/2010/0627_pd/06272010_18.html
|archive-date=15 June 2011
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> A six-time state assembly member and minister in the state government, Debbarma never lost any election he contested.<ref name="gulf">{{cite news
|url=http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/printArticle.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=368928&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22
|title=Tripura Communist leader dies at 95
|date=18 June 2010
|work=Gulf Times
|accessdate=9 July 2010}}</ref>

==Biography==

Debbarma grew up in a tribal farmers family in rural Tripura. He could not continue his schooling beyond class VII. He later joined the Royal Army of Tripura, the armed forces of the then monarchy that ruled Tripura. During the [[Second World War]], Debbarma had protested against the Tripura army helping British forces, and was transferred to administrative non-combatant duties as a disciplinary measure.<ref name="pd"/>

When reform-oriented forces organized the Janashiksha Samity ('People's Education Society') in 1945, Debbarma become secretly associated with the movement. He was caught, and interned at Khowai jail where he was subjected to torture. A death sentenced was issued against him by the Tripura government, but never executed.<ref name="pd"/>

Debbarma became an organiser of the Janashiksha Samity, and mobilised protest activities against the government of Tripura.<ref name="pd"/> He also took part in the founding of the [[Ganamukti Parishad]] ('People's Liberation Council') movement.<ref name="kh"/>

Debbarma became a member of the [[Communist Party of India]]. He was arrested during the 1962 [[Sino-Indian war]]. When the Communist Party was divided in 1964, he took the side of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and was elected the Tripura state committee of the CPI(M). He would remain a CPI(M) Tripura State Committee member until his death. Moreover, he served as the vice president of the Ganamukti Parishad (the tribal mass organisation of CPI(M) in Tripura).<ref name="pd"/>

Debbarma again faced arrests in 1965 (during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|Indo-Pakistani War]]), 1968, 1973 (during the food movement) and 1975 (during the [[Emergency (India)|Emergency]], when he was imprisoned for 21 months).<ref name="pd"/>

Debbarma was a member of the [[Tripura]] [[Vidhan Sabha|state legislative assembly]] between 1967 and 1993, being elected six consecutive times. When the CPI(M)-[[Congress for Democracy]] coalition government was formed in 1977, Debbarma was named Minister in charge of tribal welfare.<ref name="pd"/> During his later years, he retired from active politics due to ill health.<ref name="gulf"/>

==References==
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[[Category:1916 births]]
[[Category:2010 deaths]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Tripura]]
[[Category:Indian prisoners and detainees]]
[[Category:Tripuri people]]
[[Category:People from Agartala]]
[[Category:Tripura politicians]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1967–1972]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1972–1977]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1977–1983]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1983–1988]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1988–1993]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1993–1998]]

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