Dipankar Bhattacharya
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Dipankar Bhattacharya is an India
n politician. He is the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
. Bhattacharya succeeded Vinod Mishra
as the leader of the party in 1998.
Son of a railway employee, Dipankar Bhattacharya was born in Guwahati [Assam] in December 1960. He Studied in Ramkrishna Mission Vidyalaya Narendrapur near Kolkata, as a student of Dr Bijoy Bera and stood first in Higher Secondary Examination in 1979. He then joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and became active in CPI(ML) politics. Within years he become a professional revolutionary, though he took his M. Stat degree in due course. As a responsible cadre of CPI(ML). He later worked as the General Secretary of the Indian Peoples Front and then as the General Secretary of the party's Trade Union
wing All India Central Council of Trade Unions
(AICCTU). He was elected a member of Central Committee and Political Bureau of CPI(ML) in December 1987. After the sudden demise of Vinod Mishra - the general secretary of the party since 1975 - in 1998, Dipankar was unanimously elected to the post.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n politician. He is the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...
. Bhattacharya succeeded Vinod Mishra
Vinod Mishra
Vinod Mishra was an Indian communist politician. Mishra served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India Liberation between 1975 and 1998.-Early life and student activism:...
as the leader of the party in 1998.
Son of a railway employee, Dipankar Bhattacharya was born in Guwahati [Assam] in December 1960. He Studied in Ramkrishna Mission Vidyalaya Narendrapur near Kolkata, as a student of Dr Bijoy Bera and stood first in Higher Secondary Examination in 1979. He then joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and became active in CPI(ML) politics. Within years he become a professional revolutionary, though he took his M. Stat degree in due course. As a responsible cadre of CPI(ML). He later worked as the General Secretary of the Indian Peoples Front and then as the General Secretary of the party's Trade Union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
wing All India Central Council of Trade Unions
All India Central Council of Trade Unions
All India Central Council of Trade Unions, a central trade union federation in India. AICCTU is politically attached to Communist Party of India Liberation...
(AICCTU). He was elected a member of Central Committee and Political Bureau of CPI(ML) in December 1987. After the sudden demise of Vinod Mishra - the general secretary of the party since 1975 - in 1998, Dipankar was unanimously elected to the post.