Kripa Shankar Chatterjee is an Indian politician based in the states of

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

. He was elected to the

Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is ...

as an Independent in the year 1977. Thereafter he was re-elected as an Independent to the

in the year 1980. In the year 1985 he was elected MLA on an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

Ticket. K.S.Chatterjee was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly twice as an Independent candidate. He joined the

and won in 1985 on a Congress ticket. He is a prominent Trade Union Leader in the

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur and a major financial hub of Jharkhand. In terms of economy, Dhanbad has the largest economy in the state of Jharkhand and it is often referred to as th ...

region and is the President of Bihar Pradesh Colliery Mazdoor Congress Chatterjee was among the first leaders to be detained under the National Security Act in 1980–1981. Ever since its inception the National Security Act has been widely abused by governmental authorities in order to detain trade union leaders, human rights activists, political opponents, underprivileged castes, and ordinary criminal suspects for long periods of time without the minimal safeguards that the Indian Constitution and international law demand. AK. Roy, MP and KS. Chatterjee, MLA and trade union leaders of

Marxist Coordination Committee The Marxist Co-ordination Committee (MCC) was a political party in Jharkhand, India, based around the coal mining region of Dhanbad. The Party operated from 1971 to 2024. Marxist Co-ordination Committee since its inception was closely associate ...

from

were arrested and later released.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Bihar MLAs 1977–1980 Bihar MLAs 1980–1985 Bihar MLAs 1985–1990 Marxist Co-ordination Committee politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar {{Bihar-INC-politician-stub