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Ashim Chatterjee is an Indian politician and a former Naxalite leader.[1] He was a student of the then Presidency College, Kolkata, and leader of firstly Bengal Provincial Student's Federation (then student wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)) and then student leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Calcutta.[2] Chatterjee broke ranks with Charu Majumdar in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement in the Debra-Gopiballavbur area in West Bengal and due to the opposition of CPI(ML) towards the liberation struggle of Bangladesh. He was imprisoned during 1972–78. Chatterjee formed the Bengal-Bihar-Odisha Border Regional Committee, CPI(ML) as a separate faction. His group joined the CPI(ML) of Satyanarayan Singh. Later Chatterjee formed the Communist Revolutionary League of India.[3]
He unsuccessfully contested West Bengal legislative assembly (Bidhan Sabha) elections twice - first as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) supported Independent and in 2006, as a Trinamool Congress supported candidate.[4] He is popularly called as comrade Kaka.[5][6]
References
- ↑ In Marxist bastion, Hindu and Muslim students live separately, Bandopadhyay(13 December 1998).
- ↑ Naxal enigma, Akbar, M .J(19 February 2010).
- ↑ Real issues are clouded by national chauvinism, Chatterjee, Ashim(18 June 1999).
- ↑ '70s' nemesis, now comrade - Ex-Naxal leader Ashim Chatterjee on same side as Ray, Datta, Sujan(25 April 2006).
- ↑ The new face of Naxalism, Banerjee, Aloke(24 September 2009).
- ↑ 'Thunder' is just a memory, CHATTOPADHYAY, SUHRID SANKAR(8 October 2005).