Sailen Dasgupta
Indian politician
About Sailen Dasgupta
Lived 1920 – 2001 (aged 80–81).
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) 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. 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.
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Who was Sailen Dasgupta?
Indian politician (1944–2006)
When was Sailen Dasgupta born?
Sailen Dasgupta was born in 1920.
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Sailen Dasgupta died on 10 July 2001.
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