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Dr. '''Dhirendranath Banerjee''' was an [[India]]n politician and physician. He was a founding member of the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)]] and an elected parliamentarian.<br />
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Banerjee became involved in political struggles during the 1921 [[Non-Cooperation Movement]].<ref name=a/> He studied at [[Rajshahi College]], where he befriended members of the [[Anushilan Samiti]].<ref name=a/> He became an active member of the Anushilan Samiti resistance movement in the struggle for Indian independence.<ref name=a/><br />
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Banerjee graduated from Campbell Medical School in 1928.<ref name=a/> With a medical diploma, he opened medical practice in the country-side.<ref name=a/> Whilst working as a physician he remained in touch with Anushilan Samiti.<ref name=a/> Banerjee was arrested and jailed in 1934.<ref name=a/><br />
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Banerjee was a founding member of RSP in 1940.<ref name=a/> He moved to [[Balurghat]] and worked on organising RSP in the northern parts of the province.<ref name=a/> He led the 1956 anti-merger movement in [[West Dinajpur district]] (against merger of [[West Bengal]] and [[Bihar]]).<ref name=f>''Frontier Weekly''. ''[http://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-47/47-9/47-9-Leftism%20in%20Undivided%20Dinajpur.html Leftism in Undivided Dinajpur &#91;1947-1977&#93;] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318204935/http://frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-47/47-9/47-9-Leftism%20in%20Undivided%20Dinajpur.html |date=2015-03-18 }}''</ref> He won the unreserved seat in the [[Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Balurghat constituency]] in the [[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<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 | publisher= [[Election Commission of India]] | accessdate = 4 December 2016}}</ref> He was a leading figure in the 1959 Food Movement in West Dinajpur district.<ref name=f/><br />
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Banerjee died in [[Balurghat]] on 8 January 1978, at the age of 74 years.<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=The Call|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qNQKAAAAIAAJ|volume=29-30|year=1978|publisher=S. Bhattacharya.|page=20}}</ref><br />
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