Saturday, June 21, 2014

538. Monomohan Bhaduri, Dr. (1877-1971), 539. Manoranjan Gupta (1890-1976)

Dr. Monomohan Bhaduri was born in Faridpur. He was an active freedom fighter of India. He became one of the convict of Faridpur Conspiracy Case. Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan Das stood on his behalf as a defense lawyer. He was exempted from capital punishment but got 10 years RI.



Manoranjan Gupta was born in Barisal While studying in Barisal Brajamohan college he joined the revolutionary secret organisation founded by the founder of Barisal Shankar Math Swami Prajnananda Saraswati. He participated in three dacoity cases of barisal Jellor before 1914.Under his guidance Police Inspector Girin Mukherjee was assassinated in a house of Masjid bari Street of Calcutta on 6.11.1915 and a dacoity took place in a goldsmith shop situated in Corporation street on 2.12.1915.He was arrested under Rule II and was detained in jail as a state prisoner for 4 and 1/2 years.After release he established a library with the assistance of Arun Chandra Guha on Harrison Road, Calcutta, in the name of Prajnananda Saraswati inscribed as " Saraswati Library" in 1920.He wa again arrested with other leaders and released in 1928. When the the proposal of complete Independence was passed in Lahore Congress in 1929 , he and other revolutionaries placing demands of immediate actions to be taken by the Congress.In an assay written by Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Datta in the weekly, Swadhinata, published by Saraswati Press  titled "Danya Chattagram", Government declared closure of the magazine and took Rs. 2000/- as fine. In Dec 1930 he was arrested in absconding state and released in 1938.In that year all the members of Jugantar Dal announced in the papers of dismantling the secret organisation and joined in Congress. He was elected as an MLA from Barisal in 1946. He stayed in East Pakistan after partition. He was an MLA from Eastpakistan for 7 years. He became member of legislative assembly from East Pakistan. He came back to Calcutta in 1954 and became MLC in West Bengal for 15 years.

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