Subodh Banerjee (1918 – 16 September 1974) was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India. He introduced the '' Gherao'' principle as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector of India while being the Labour Minister in the 1967 United Front Government in

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

.West Bengal's Jyothi Basu – A political people, p. 27
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United Front A united front is an alliance of groups against their common enemies, figuratively evoking unification of previously separate geographic fronts or unification of previously separate armies into a front. The name often refers to a political and/ ...

Government of West Bengal. His lasting contribution was the removal of all statutes of "guardians and rulers" of the British Indian empire from public places in

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

. However, he appreciated the artistic value of many of them and stored them in some other public places not in the public view. He was called the '' Gherao'' minister and was recognised both by his friends and detractors as a 'scrupulously honest minister and a firebrand labour leader with incendiary oratorical skill'. He was a member of the Central Committee of the SUCI and the first MLA of the party. He represented the Jaynagar assembly constituency of

. A auditorium has been made for the memory of his and Sachin Banerjee in Jaynagar by naming 'Sachin Banerjee-Subodh Banerjee Bhaban.

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