Saturday, September 21, 2013

!42. Kalipada Guharoy. 143. Kalipada Chakrabarty, Panditda (1908-23.3.1992)

Kalipada Guha Roy was born in Faridpur. He joined Jaugantar Dal and became a hard activist at an early age. He passed prison life from 1930 to 1938. After release he engaged himself in journalism and in literature
Kalipada Chakrabarty was born in Chittagnag. In his boyhood he learned Sanskrit in a Tol. He joined the revolutionary organisation of Masterda Surya Sen in 1923 and became a leader in the second rank.He and Ambika Chakrabarty took  the leadership of six others , attacked the Telephone and telegraph Bhavan and after destroying them, they joined the main team in the headquarters who occupied the armory of Polish. He fought in a front battle with other revolutionaries against the machine gun of the military. After the battle they showed guard of honour to the martyrs and came down from the hill top to be divided in two groups. Then at the advice of Masterda they went under ground.At the instruction of Masterda he and Ramkrishna Biswas fired at the polish inspector general Mr. Crage on 1Dec 1930. But unfortunately, by mistake, an ordinary polish got the bullets and expired. After trial Ramkrishna Biswas was hanged and Kalipada Chakrabarty was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment and was sent to Andaman. in 1933. He joined the Communist Party of India after being released. After Independence he joined in many democratic movements of East Pakistan and West Bengal and sometimes remained underground.He died in Chittagang.    


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