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Shyamal Chakraborty

Shyamal Chakraborty
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
2008–2014
Preceded bySheikh Khabir Uddin Ahmed
Succeeded byRitabrata Banerjee
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Minister of Transport, Government of West Bengal
In office
1982–1996
Preceded byMohammed Amin
Succeeded bySubhas Chakraborty
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1981–1996
Preceded bySuhrid Mullick Chowdhury
Succeeded byParesh Paul
ConstituencyManiktala
Personal details
Born(1944-02-05)5 February 1944
Khulna, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died6 August 2020(2020-08-06) (aged 76)[1]
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (from 1964)
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party of India (till 1964)
ChildrenUshasie Chakraborty
Residence(s)Maniktala, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
ProfessionPolitician, columnist

Shyamal Chakraborty (5 February 1944 – 6 August 2020) was an Indian politician and trade unionist, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014 from West Bengal. He was also a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly and a minister in the government of West Bengal.

Early life

Chakraborty was born to Sushil Chakraborty and Anupama Devi on 5 February 1944. He was born in Shivpur village in Khulna district in present day Bangladesh.

After partition, his family moved to West Bengal and settled in Motijheel refugee colony in Dumdum.

He did his schooling in Baidyanath Institution in Dumdum and graduated from Dumdum Motijheel College and Vidyasagar College.

Early political life

Chakraborty became a member of undivided Communist Party of India in 1960 and joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) after the split in 1964.[2]

He was a leading organisor in students' movements in West Bengal, particularly in Kolkata.

He was also the President of the Students' Federation of India West Bengal State Committee from 1973 to 1979 and All India Joint Secretary.

He was jailed for a period of a year and stayed underground for six months.[2]

Political career

He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1981 in a byelection from Maniktala (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He remained a member till 1996, when he lost. [3]

He was elected to the state Committee of the Party in 1978 and the Central Committee in 2002.[2]

He was the Transport Minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996.[4][5][6][7]

After losing the election, he gradually moved to the labour movement in the state. He led the West Bengal Centre of Indian Trade Unions as its state president for around two decades.[8]

Com Shyamal Chakraborty was elected in the national secretariat of CITU in 1991 and was in that position as vice president till the 2017, and got voluntarily relieved from that position in the 16th conference of CITU held in 2020.[8]

Rajya Sabha

He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2008 and served till 2014 from West Bengal. As a member of Rajya Sabha, he was associated with Committee on Petitions, Committee on Energy, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Railway Convention Committee, Committee on Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme, and National Welfare Board for Seafarers. [9]

He also visited Switzerland, U.S.S.R., China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Germany, Austria, U.K., U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam as member of different government delegations.

Personal life

He was married to Shipra Bhoumick on 25 June, 1971. The couple had a daughter, Ushashi Chakraborty. However, Shipra passed away a few years later and Chakraborty raised Ushashi as a single-father.

Ushashi is a successful actress in Bengali film and television.

He along with Sankar Gupta met with a severe accident as they were heading towards Santaldih from Durgapur to stop the closure of the Santaldih Thermal Power Station. The accident led to lifelong ailments.

Death

He died on 6 August 2020, at age 76, from cardiac arrest after being diagnosed with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[10]

Published works

  • সমাজতন্ত্র কী আবং কেন (What is Socialism and Why?), 1978,
  • কাশ্মীর -অতীত , বর্তমান এবং ভবিষ্যৎ(Kashmir Past, Present and Future), 1998,
  • তিন প্রসঙ্গ(Three Issues), 2001,
  • গরু ও ত্রিশূল(Cow and Trident), 2001,
  • আর্যরা কি ভারতের আদিম অধিবাসী (Whether Aryans are Aboriginal in India), 2002,
  • ঝড়ের খেয়া (Boat in the Storm), 2008
  • ছাত্র আন্দোলন ৬০:৭০ (Students' Movement 60:70), 2010;

Booklets

  • Unorganised Worker in West Bengal, 2005
  • On Retail Trade, 2007

References

  1. ^ "Rajya Sabha Members Biographical Sketches 1952-2019" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty". 6 August 2020.
  3. ^ "- West Bengal Legislative Assembly".
  4. ^ "Veteran CPM leader Shyamal Chakraborty dies of Covid-19". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Former Bengal transport minister Shyamal Chakraborty passes away". Jayatri Nag. Mumbai Mirror. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  6. ^ Santanu Chowdhury (6 August 2020). "West Bengal: Veteran CPM leader Shyamal Chakraborty dies days after testing Covid positive". The Indian Express. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Veteran CPI(M) leader Shyamal Chakraborty dies of COVID-19 at a hospital in Kolkata". The Economic Times. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty | Peoples Democracy".
  9. ^ "Digital Sansad".
  10. ^ Singh, Shiv Sahay (6 August 2020). "CPI(M) leader Shyamal Chakraborty dead". The Hindu.

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