Thursday, September 19, 2013

135. Kanailal Bhattacharya (1918-19.12.1983)

Kanailal Bhattacharya was born in Santragachi, Howrah. He passed M.Sc. from Calcutta University in Chemistry and obtained Ph.D. degree from the same university . In his student's career he joined politics. From the very beginning he was cosely connected with Subhas Chandra Basu and took active role in forming Forward Bloc in 1939. When he was in underground in 1942, he was arrested and was confined to jail for 3 years. He became an MLA in 1952 as a candidate of  Forward Bloc. He became a Minister in the Dept. of agriculture of United front Government in 1969 and from 1977 he became a minister in the dept. of Commerce and Industry. To commemorate his memory a statue was constructed in Howrah District.

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