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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bipin Chandra Tripathi
| honorific-prefix =
| image = Bipin Chandra Tripathi.jpg
| birth_date = 23 February 1945
| birth_place = [[Dwarahat]], [[United Provinces (1937–50)|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />(present-day [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]])
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|08|30|1945|02|23}}
|death_place = [[Dwarahat]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]]
| alma_mater = [[Kumaon University]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Social Activist|Environmentalist|Journalist|Politician}}
| residence =
| office = Member, [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency = [[Dwarahat]]
| term_start = 2002
| term_end= 2004
| predecessor =
| successor =
| party = [[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal]]
| spouse =
| profession =
| religion =
| website =
| known_for = [[Uttarakhand movement]]<br>[[Chipko movement]]
}}

'''Bipin Chandra Tripathi''' ([[Kumaoni language|Kumaoni]]: बिपिन चन्द्र त्रिपाठी; 23 February 1945 – 30 August 2004) was a founder member of the [[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal]], a political party recognised in the [[India]]n state of [[Uttarakhand]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Khushi at Bedupako |url=http://bedupako.com/blog/2012/08/29/bipin-chandra-tripathi/ |title=श्री बिपिन चन्द्र त्रिपाठी |publisher=Bedupako.com |date=2012-08-29 |accessdate=2013-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108091051/http://bedupako.com/blog/2012/08/29/bipin-chandra-tripathi/ |archive-date=8 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Bipin Tripathi was a prominent socialist activist, environmentalist and a journalist from Uttarakhand. When he was on a hunger strike with a demand for the establishment of Degree College at [[Dwarahat]], [[Almora]] he had lost sizeable weight but was still determined to continue his hunger strike till death or till the accomplishment of his demand. At that time he was working as an Owner Editor of ''Dronanchal Prahari'', a fortnightly paper which he used to publish from Dwarahat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uttarakhand-kranti-dal.co.tv/ |title=Co.Tv |publisher=Uttarakhand-kranti-dal.co.tv |date= |accessdate=2013-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306125426/http://www.uttarakhand-kranti-dal.co.tv/ |archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Bipin Tripathi was born on 23 February 1945 in village Dairi of [[Dwarahat]], [[Almora district]] to Mathura Datt Tripathi and mother name was Kalawati Devi. He had his primary and secondary education at [[Mukteshwar]], [[Nainital district]]. He passed his Intermediate from Dwarahat and went to [[Haldwani]] for pursuing the course of Electrical Diploma.

==Social and Environmental activism ==
After he graduated from [[Kumaon University]] in 1967 he threw his lot to the cause of the Samajwadi Andolan. He was highly influenced by the thoughts of socialist leader Dr. [[Ram Manohar Lohia]]. He fought for the landless villagers of [[Terai]] of [[Nainital district]] from 1965 to 1969. In 1968-69 he started publication of a fortnightly newspaper ''Yuvjan Mashal'' and worked for the achievement of the people’s demands. He led many public agitations highlighting various demands. In 1970 held the State Level Conference of the ''Yuvjan Sabha''. During this period he was arrested by the state government of [[Uttar Pradesh]] for the first time. After his release, he came back to Dwarahat. In 1971 he started his fortnightly paper ''Dronanchal Prahari''. He also fought against the loot of forests by mafias and businessmen like Star Paper Mill, [[Lalkuan]] through his paper, with the result that a case was filed against him in the press council. He was among the frontrunner of the forest movement in uttarakhand. In 1974, along with other activists, he opposed forest auction in Nainital and was arrested with other 18 activists, this protest provoked demonstration throughout the region. In 1974 under his leadership, the biggest fight of [[Chipko movement]], for saving ''Chacharidhar'' forest, was fought against [[Saharanpur]] paper mill, where they successfully saved the forest. In 1975 during [[Emergency in India|Emergency]] he went to Jail for more than 22 months.

==Political career==
Tripathi was a founder member of [[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal]] along with Dr. D. D. Pant, Indramani Badoni and [[Kashi Singh Airy]] Hari Dutt Bahuguna. The party was founded on 26 July 1979 at [[Nainital]]. Tripathi was essentially a democrat, committed to the struggles of the [[Northern Indo-Aryan languages|Highlanders]] of Uttarakhand. He was one of the staunch stalwarts who stood for the establishment of Uttarakhand and he successfully worked for the achievement of this goal. He became a member of the 1st [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) in the year 2002 in the newly formed [[Uttarakhand]] State. He devoted himself for the cause of the development of Uttarakhand. He continued his fight with redoubled vigour and enthusiasm.

==Death==
He died on 30 August 2004 at the age 59. At the time of his, he was also the President of the State Unit of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal. After his death his son Pushpesh Tripathi was elected as MLA from [[Dwarahat]] assembly constituency.

==See also==
*[[Uttarakhand movement]]
*[[Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute of Technology]]

==References==
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