Prasana Deb Raikut was the Forest and Excise Minister in the

A. K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengalis, Bengali lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal, prime minister of Bengal during the Britis ...

cabinet.

Career

Raikut was born in the

Raikat The Raikut family was a princely family that controlled large estates in Jalpaiguri what is now West Bengal, India, first as subjects to the state of Cooch Behar State, Koch Bihar, later as Zamindars to the Mughal Empire, Mughal rulers of Benga ...

family. Raikut was elected to the

Bengal Legislative Assembly The Bengal Legislative Assembly () was the largest legislatures of British India, legislature in British India, serving as the lower chamber of the legislature of Bengal Presidency, Bengal (now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal). It ...

as a scheduled caste candidate. He later represented the Rajbanshi people.

References

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