Bibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta was an Indian freedom fighter and politician.
Early life
Das Gupta was born in the village Sonarang in Dacca District in January 1904.[1] He was the son of Rishi Nibaran Chandra Das Gupta.[1] Das Gupta studied at Rajindra College in Faridpur.[2] He didn't finish his college education, but joined the struggle for Indian independence instead.[1]
Politics
In 1921 he acted as village-level secretary of the Indian National Congress.[1] Between 1922 and 1948 he was a member of the Manbhum District Congress Committee and the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee.[1] Das Gupta was a member of the All India Congress Committee between 1938 and 1948.[1]
Dasgupta was one of the Congress leaders in Manbhum that was arrest in connection with the Salt satyagrah.[3] Upon release from jail (around 1931-1932) he joined with Nibaranchandra Das Gupta to set up the Lok Sevak Sangh, a Gandhian movement working for Swaraj and social reform.[3] They challenged caste hierarchies, preaching to Adivasis and Dalits to participate in social and political life on equal terms with upper caste Hindus.[3] The organization sought to fight against discrimination against lepers.[3]
In 1938-1939 he served as Vice Chairman of Purulia municipality.[1][2] He was arrested during the Quit India movement.[4] He took part in transforming the Lok Sewak Sangh into a political party in 1948 and became its general secretary.[1]
Das Gupta was elected to the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Parliament of India) from the Purulia seat in the 1957 Indian general election .[5]
Das Gupta won the Purulia constituency seat in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[6] After the election Das Gupta was named Minister for Panchayats and Social Welfare in the first United Front government.[7][8]
Das Gupta retained the Purulia seat in the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[6] He was named Minister of Panchayats in the second United Front government, formed in 1969.[6]
He served as editor of Mukti.[1] He lived at Shilpasram in Purulia.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 India Who's who{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. INFA Publications.(1973)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lok Sabha. Second Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile Template:Webarchive
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 West Bengal district gazetteers{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. State editor, West Bengal District Gazetteers(1985)
- ↑ Regional movements: politics of language, ethnicity-identity{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Indian Institute of Advanced Study(1992)
- ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1957 TO THE SECOND LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. The Committee
- ↑ Asian Recorder{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1967)
- ↑ The politics of power: defections and state politics in India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. National Pub. House(1974)