Baishnab Charan Parida (15 February 1941 – 22 November 2018), was a BJD

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. He was a Member of

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(the

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) and represented

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

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and

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are his main mantras.
. orissadiary. com (2010-10-12). Retrieved on 2012-04-13. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in July 2010 and his term ended on 1 July 2016. He fought to bring the Odisha Official Language Act, 1954.

Early life

He was born on 15 February 1941 in Gopal (caste), Gopal (

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) family of Srirampur, P.S. Mangalpur of

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. His father Jagbandhu Parida was a worker in jute mill in Kolkata and a folk singer and his mother Sulochana Parida was a housewife. His early School education was at Mangalpur primary School. He was admitted to Mahtab High School at Mangalpur. He was suffering from cancer disease and under treatment.

Life in Kolkata

After his matriculation, he moved to Kolkata to continue his higher studies as his father was working there. He completed his Graduation in Kolkata from

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and MA In Political Science from the

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. Later he completed his M.Phil. from

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. He was a member of

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(CPI) from 1960 to 1992. A great follower of

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and his ideology, he slowly and steadily got involved in trade union and labour movement in

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. In 1964 he was elected as member of Executive Committee of West Bengal Students Federation. Before that in 1963 he established West Bengal Oriya Students Association and in 1965 established West Bengal Oriya Citizen Council at Kolkata. In 1965 he formed ''Soviet Land'' (Oriya Editor) as a member of its editorial board. He continued as a member until 1975. He married Swarna Lata Parida on 3 March 1972.

Life in Moscow

In 1974 Baishnab Parida moved to

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with his family for a special assignment for Indo-Soviet coordination. He stayed there until 1989. During his stay in

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he held several positions. He was the correspondent of

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from 1984 to 1989. He was elected as General Secretary of Indian Association in 1988. During that time he was special correspondent of the Samaja riya Dailyand Eastern Media for East European countries.

1989 - Return to Odisha

After fifteen years in Moscow he returned to Odisha. A

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and

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at heart, he had to leave CPI due to some differences on application of Marxist ideology in Indian reality. During his stay in Moscow he read literature on

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and

Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on t ...

, slowly and steadily he was attracted towards Gandhian Philosophy and Lohia's ideology. And eventually in 1993 he joined

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. Until 1998 he was in Congress but due to his differences with the state party leadership he left congress and joined

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in 1999 as its State President. He was in Samajwadi party until he resigned in 2008. In 2008 he joined BJD.

Books

(i) Caste System in India, (ii) S.A. Dange and Trade Union Movement in India, (iii) Octopus of Corruption, (iv) Political Economy and (v) Jharkhand Movement and the Political Aspirations behind it; translated 31 Russian Classics including Maxim Gorky's 'Mother',

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and Chekhov's novels and stories, Leo Tolstoy's Father Sergei and other novels, Pushkin's Captain's daughter ; four volumes of

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.Plekhanov and

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and many children's books into Oriya; edited books translated by many prominent Oriya writers, translated the 'Matir Manish' of

Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (2 July 1901 – 15 May 1991) was a noted Odia poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist, and essayist. He is famous for his magnum opus ''Matira Manisha''. He has been awarded Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi award for ...

, noted Oriya writer and other 28 best Oriya stories into Russian as a co-translator; published Pratinidhi (Oriya fortnightly) from Kolkata, 1963–69; contributed regularly for articles, journals and newspapers, has written numerous poems. He died due to cancer on 22nd Nov 2018.

Auxiliary info

# Spokesperson, Biju Janata Dal # Orissa State President, Samajwadi Party, 1999–2008 # General Secretary, (i) Orissa Pradesh Congress State Election Campaign Committee, 1995 and (ii) Indian Association of the then Soviet Union, 1988 # Spokesman, Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee; Member, (i) Executive Committee of West Bengal Students Federation, 1965 and (ii) Editorial Board of Soviet Land (Oriya edition), 1965–74 # In-charge of Moscow Committee of Communist Party of India (C.P.I.) 1975-89 # Vice-President, Rural Workers Union of Orissa; Founder (i) West Bengal Oriya Students Association, 1963, (ii) West Bengal Oriya Citizens Council, Kolkata, 1965, (iii) New Thinking Forum, 1990, (iv) Forum against Corruption and Criminalization of Politics, 1996 and (v) Orissa Social Justice Forum, 1998 # Special Correspondent, Samaja, leading Oriya Daily and Eastern Media for East European Countries, 1976–89, Correspondent, Novosti Press Agency, Moscow, 1984–89; Editor, Utkal Samaj, Oriya Daily, 1993–95

References

External links

- Rajya Sabha Page
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