Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee (1895–1969) was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and member of Rajya Sabha. He was born in Dhaka.
Short biography
Jogesh Chandra became a member of the Anushilan Samiti. He was influenced by Purna Chakraborty of Coomillah . During WWI in 1914, there would have been a revolution in Chittagong, Noakhali, and Tripura. He was one of the founder members of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) (in 1924) that later became Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He was arrested several times for revolutionary activities. He was tried in the Kakori conspiracy case in 1926 and received rigorous imprisonment for life. He was a colleague of Subhas Chandra Basu.
He wrote two books 1) Indian Revolutionaries In Conference 2) In Search Of Freedom (as biography)
In 1937, Jogesh Chandra joined Congress Socialist party but left it very shortly and formed a new party in 1940 with a name of Revolutionary Socialist Party of which he remained the General Secretary from 1940 to 1953. He was the Vice-President of All India United Trades Union Congress (the trade union wing of RSP) from 1949 to 1953 and United Socialist Organisation for a year 1949 only.[2]
After independence, however, he returned to the Congress and became a member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in 1956 and remained its member till his death in 1969.[3] He acted in a number of famous Bengali movies including Satyajit Ray's Nayak and Tapan Sinha's Galpa Holeo Satyi.
Jogesh Chandra Dutta was born in Calcutta. In the thanks giving ceremony of Lord North Brook in 1876 he opposed the proposal and became known as a member of "Amar dashjan" like the other nine famous person. He was one of the guarantor of Surendaranath Banerjee along with Anandamohan and . He was a Commissioner of Calcutta .honorary magistrate.
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