Sailen Dasgupta
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Sailen Dasgupta (24 October 1920 – 10 July 2001), was an Indian communist politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of
Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a Communism in India, communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electora ...
between 1990 and 1998 and member of the party's politburo beginning in 1992 until his death in 2001.


Early life

Dasgupta was born on 24 October, 1920 in the Barisal district in undivided Bengal and completed his matriculation in 1938.


Politics

Dasgupta joined CPI(M) in 1939. He was active in the party throughout the decades and because Secretary of the State Committee in 1990; He was reelected in 1991, 1995 and 1998. He resigned in late 1998 owing to ill-health and old age. He was also elected as the chairperson of Left Front in West Bengal in 1990. He was also elected to the Central Committee in 1990 and to the Polit Bureau in 1991.


Death

Dasgupta died in Mumbai on 10 July, 2001.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dasgupta, Sailen 1920 births 2001 deaths Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal