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| name = Kansari Halder <br />
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| birth_date = 28 September 1910<br />
| birth_place = Vill. Andaria, South 24 Parganas (then 24 Parganas)<br />
| residence = P.O. Serakole, South 24-Paraganas<br />
| death_date = 29 August 1997 (aged 86)<br />
| death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India<br />
| constituency1 = [[Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency)|Diamond Harbour]]<br />
| office1 = Member of Parliament<br />
| term1 = 1957–1962<br />
| constituency2 = [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]]<br />
| office2 = Member of Parliament<br />
| term2 = 1967–1972<br />
| constituency3 = [[Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sonarpur]]<br />
| office3 = Member of Legislative Assembly<br />
| term3 = 1972–1977<br />
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| party = [[Communist Party of India]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
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'''Kansari Halder''' (1910–1997) was an Indian politician, belonging to the [[Communist Party of India]]. He earned fame as a leader of and for his active participation in the [[Tebhaga movement]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Born in a [[Poundra (caste)|Poundra]] family, the son of Narendra Krishna Halder Jashodarani Haldar, he was born at village Andaria on 26 September 1910. He was educated at [[Surendranath College|Ripon College]] and [[Bangabasi College]] in Kolkata. While still a student he was arrested in 1930 for his participation in the [[Salt March|Civil Disobedience Movement]]. He remained with the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] till 1941, when he joined the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=refocus>{{cite web| url = http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-1089-Halder,%20Shri%20Kansari| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141112075253/http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-1089-Halder,%20Shri%20Kansari| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 12 November 2014|title = Halder, Shri Kansari|publisher= reFocus| access-date = 11 November 2014}}</ref><ref name=samsad>Samsad Bangali Chartibhidhan (Vol 2), Biographical Dictionary by Anjali Bose (in Bengali). {{ISBN|81-86806-99-7}}. Third edition. P. 73. Sahitya Samsad.</ref><br />
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==Tebhaga movement==<br />
Kansari Halder provided leadership to the peasant movement that developed in the 1940s in Kakdwip-Sundarbans area of 24 Parganas and later became well known as the Tebhaga movement. Many people were killed in police-public face-off. Although he was convicted to death sentence in the Chandanpiri case in the Kakdwip area the police could not get him as he had gone underground. In 1957, he was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] while he was still convicted. He was later acquitted.<ref name=samsad/><br />
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==Electoral performance==<br />
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1957 from [[Diamond Harbour (Lok Sabha constituency)|Diamond Harbour]],<ref name=loksabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 11 November 2014}}</ref> was reelected to the Lok Sabha in 1967 from [[Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathurapur]],<ref name=loksabha1967>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203524/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }}</ref> and was elected to the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] in 1972 from [[Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sonarpur]].<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 11 November 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Kansari Halder spent the later years of his life in poverty. He died on 29 August 1997.<ref name=samsad/><br />
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{{First to Tenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}<br />
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[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:1910 births]]<br />
[[Category:1997 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1972–1977]]<br />
[[Category:People from South 24 Parganas district]]<br />
[[Category:India MPs 1967–1970]]<br />
[[Category:India MPs 1957–1962]]<br />
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