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	\| name = Dipankar Bhattacharya
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			\| name = Dipankar Bhattacharya
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	\| caption = Bhattacharya speaking at a public meet in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal		\| caption = Bhattacharya speaking at a public meet in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
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	\| birth_date = {{birth year and age\|1960\|12}}<ref>[https://wap.business-standard.com/article/politics/dipankar-bhattacharya-the-revolutionary-statistician-in-left-s-bihar-rise-120111400059_1.html Dipankar Bhattacharya: The revolutionary statistician in Left's Bihar rise]</ref>		\| birth_date = {{birth year and age\|1960\|12}}<ref>[https://wap.business-standard.com/article/politics/dipankar-bhattacharya-the-revolutionary-statistician-in-left-s-bihar-rise-120111400059_1.html Dipankar Bhattacharya: The revolutionary statistician in Left's Bihar rise]</ref>
	\| birth_place = [[Guwahati, Assam]], India		\| birth_place = [[Guwahati, Assam]], India
	\| education = [[Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur\|Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya]], [[Indian Statistical Institute]]		\| education = [[Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur\|Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya]], [[Indian Statistical Institute]]
	\| party = [[Communist Party of India (~~Marxist–Leninist~~) Liberation]]		\| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]]
	\| ~~father~~ =		\| profession = [[Politician]]
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	'''Dipankar Bhattacharya''' (born 1960<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last=Bose\|first=Sumantra\|title=Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy\|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]\|year=2013\|isbn=978-0-674-05066-2\|location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts\|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]] & [[London]]\|pages=179}}</ref>) is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]].<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Sen\|first=Jai\|title=Imagining Alternatives\|publisher=Daanish Books\|year=2012\|isbn=978-93-81144-14-5\|series=Other worlds possible?\|location=[[Gazipur]]\|pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://cpiml.org/party-organization/\|title=Organisation\|website=cpiml.org}}</ref> He was the top ranker of the 1979 higher secondary board examination and has an M.Stat. degree from the [[Indian Statistical Institute]].<ref name=":3" /> Bhattacharya succeeded [[Vinod Mishra]] as the general secretary of the party in 1998.<ref name=":1" /> He was formerly the general secretary of the [[Indian People's Front]] and the [[All India Central Council of Trade Unions]].<ref name=":2" />		\| footnotes =
			\| office1 = General Secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation\|CPIML Liberation]]
			\| predecessor1 = [[Vinod Mishra]]
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			\| term_start1 = 1998
			\| term_end1 =
			}}


			'''Dipankar Bhattacharya''' ( born on December,1960<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last=Bose\|first=Sumantra\|title=Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy\|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]\|year=2013\|isbn=978-0-674-05066-2\|location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts\|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]] & [[London]]\|pages=179}}</ref>) is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]].<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Sen\|first=Jai\|title=Imagining Alternatives\|publisher=Daanish Books\|year=2012\|isbn=978-93-81144-14-5\|series=Other worlds possible?\|location=[[Gazipur]]\|pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://cpiml.org/party-organization/\|title=Organisation\|website=cpiml.org}}</ref> He was the top ranker of the 1979 higher secondary board examination and has an M.Stat. degree from the [[Indian Statistical Institute]].<ref name=":3" /> Bhattacharya succeeded [[Vinod Mishra]] as the general secretary of the party in 1998.<ref name=":1" /> He was formerly the general secretary of the [[Indian People's Front]] and the [[All India Central Council of Trade Unions]].<ref name=":2" />

	== Early life and education ==		== Early life and education ==
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	== Political views ==		== Political views ==
	Bhattacharya states that a large section of the population is rendered invisible in the country and that only a tiny minority holds the ~~reigns~~ of [[political power]] and benefits from economic progress. He holds the view that economic growth in India has not coincided with the empowerment of people and defines empowerment as material questions such as employment, education, housing and hygiene, that the policies of [[privatisation]] and [[commercialisation]] of [[healthcare]] and [[education]] are contradictory to the vision of an empowered India promoting further dis-empowerment.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Gupta\|first=Shekhar\|title=India Empowered: Change agents speak on an Idea whose time has come\|publisher=[[The Express Group]] & [[Penguin Books]]\|year=2006\|isbn=0-67099-949-0\|pages=45–38\|author-link=Shekhar Gupta}}</ref>		Bhattacharya states that a large section of the population is rendered invisible in the country and that only a tiny minority holds the reins of [[political power]] and benefits from economic progress. He holds the view that economic growth in India has not coincided with the empowerment of people and defines empowerment as material questions such as employment, education, housing and hygiene, that the policies of [[privatisation]] and [[commercialisation]] of [[healthcare]] and [[education]] are contradictory to the vision of an empowered India promoting further dis-empowerment.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Gupta\|first=Shekhar\|title=India Empowered: Change agents speak on an Idea whose time has come\|publisher=[[The Express Group]] & [[Penguin Books]]\|year=2006\|isbn=0-67099-949-0\|pages=45–38\|author-link=Shekhar Gupta}}</ref>

	== Political career ==		== Political career ==

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{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1960)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}{{Use Indian English|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dipankar Bhattacharya
| image = Dipankar Bhattacharya WB.jpg
| caption = Bhattacharya speaking at a public meet in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
| image_size =
| birth_name = Dipankar Bhattacharya
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960|12}}<ref>[https://wap.business-standard.com/article/politics/dipankar-bhattacharya-the-revolutionary-statistician-in-left-s-bihar-rise-120111400059_1.html Dipankar Bhattacharya: The revolutionary statistician in Left's Bihar rise]</ref>
| birth_place = [[Guwahati, Assam]], India
| education = [[Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur|Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya]], [[Indian Statistical Institute]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]]
| father =
|}}
'''Dipankar Bhattacharya''' (born 1960<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Bose|first=Sumantra|title=Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2013|isbn=978-0-674-05066-2|location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]] & [[London]]|pages=179}}</ref>) is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sen|first=Jai|title=Imagining Alternatives|publisher=Daanish Books|year=2012|isbn=978-93-81144-14-5|series=Other worlds possible?|location=[[Gazipur]]|pages=15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cpiml.org/party-organization/|title=Organisation|website=cpiml.org}}</ref> He was the top ranker of the 1979 higher secondary board examination and has an M.Stat. degree from the [[Indian Statistical Institute]].<ref name=":3" /> Bhattacharya succeeded [[Vinod Mishra]] as the general secretary of the party in 1998.<ref name=":1" /> He was formerly the general secretary of the [[Indian People's Front]] and the [[All India Central Council of Trade Unions]].<ref name=":2" />

== Early life and education ==
Dipankar Bhattacharya was born in [[Guwahati, Assam]] in December 1960.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} His father was Baidyanath Bhattacharya who was an employee of the [[Indian Railways]].<ref name=":0" /> He studied in [[Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur]] near [[Kolkata]] and was the top ranker of the 1979 board examination of the [[West Bengal Higher Secondary board]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Bhushan|first=Ranjit|title=Maoism in India and Nepal|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2016|isbn=978-1-315-68549-6|location=[[New York City|New York]]|pages=27}}</ref> After completing his higher secondary, he joined the [[Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Dipankar Bhattacharya on some of his favourite teachers|date=8 August 2008|work=[[Times of India]]|edition=New Delhi}}</ref> He graduated with a Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat.) degree in 1982 and completed his [[post-graduation]] with a Master of Statistics (M.Stat.) degree in 1984.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.isical.ac.in/~deanweb/ALU_DEGR.htm|title=List of Degree/Diploma/Certificate recipients of ISI|website=[[Indian Statistical Institute]]}}</ref>

== Political views ==
Bhattacharya states that a large section of the population is rendered invisible in the country and that only a tiny minority holds the reigns of [[political power]] and benefits from economic progress. He holds the view that economic growth in India has not coincided with the empowerment of people and defines empowerment as material questions such as employment, education, housing and hygiene, that the policies of [[privatisation]] and [[commercialisation]] of [[healthcare]] and [[education]] are contradictory to the vision of an empowered India promoting further dis-empowerment.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Shekhar|title=India Empowered: Change agents speak on an Idea whose time has come|publisher=[[The Express Group]] & [[Penguin Books]]|year=2006|isbn=0-67099-949-0|pages=45–38|author-link=Shekhar Gupta}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Dipankar Bhattacharya became involved in political work during his course in the Indian Statistical Institute.<ref name=":0" /> He served as the general secretary of the [[Indian People's Front]] between 1982 and 1994<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chand|first=Attar|title=President Shankar Dayal Sharma, the Scholar and the Statesman|publisher=Anmol Publication|year=1992|isbn=8-17041-678-7|location=New Delhi|pages=128}}</ref> and later became the general secretary of the [[All India Central Council of Trade Unions]]. In December 1987, he was elected to the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]]. After the demise of [[Vinod Mishra]] who was the general secretary of the party, Bhattacharya was unanimously elected to the post.<ref name=":2" />

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