Kanailal Sarkar

Kanailal Sarkar was an Indian physician and politician. He was councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, representing the Alipore constituency.

Biography Sarkar was born on 16 January 1911 in Calcutta and grew up on Aftab Mosque Lane.

He was a councillor in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation from 1956 to 1972. In the 8 April 1963 election for the mayor of Calcutta, he was the mayoral candidate of the United Citizens Front in the vote held among the aldermen and councillors of the city. He obtained 9 votes against 51 votes for the Indian National Congress candidate Chittaranjan Chatterjee. Sarkar was the chairman of the Standing Health and Bustee Improvement Committee of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation for 8 years and represented ward no. 78. He lived in the Chetla neighbourhood in Calcutta. During the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was the chairman of the Committee of Estimates. He lost the Alipore seat in the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, having stood as the Congress(I) candidate and finished in third place with 8,760 votes (18.10%). Sarkar was elected to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1985 as the Congress(I) candidate from ward no. 74.