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| name = Nibaran Chandra Laskar<br />
| image = [[File:Prof. Nibaran Chandra Laskar.jpg|142px]]<br />
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| constituency = [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Cachar]], [[Assam]]<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term = 1952–1962<br />
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| office2 = Member of [[Constituent Assembly of India]]<br />
| term_start2 = 9 December 1946<br />
| term_end2 = 24 January 1950<br />
| birth_date = 15 January 1902<br />
| birth_place = Niz Phulbari, [[Assam]], [[British India]]<br />
| residence = Phulbari, Shillongpatty, Silchar, Assam<br />
| death_date = 25 June 1987 (aged 85)<br />
| death_place = Silchar<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse = Krishna Kumari Devi (m. 1921)<br />
| children = [[Nihar Ranjan Laskar]], Nikhil Ranjan Laskar, Rani Laskar, Nishit Ranjan Laskar, Nitish ranjan Laskar, Nripesh Ranjan Laskar, Anup Kumar Laskar, Rita Laskar, Niloy Ranjan Laskar<br />
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| source = http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/816.htm<br />
| alma_mater = MC College, Dhaka University (MA)<br />
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'''Nibaran Chandra Laskar''' (15 January 1902 – 25 June 1987)<ref name="family chronicle">{{cite book|author=Nikhil Ranjan Laskar. |title=Memoirs of life|year=2019|publisher=Vicky publishers}}</ref> was an Indian politician belonging to the [[Indian National Congress]]. He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] lower house of the [[Parliament of India]] from the [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Cachar]], [[Assam]] in 1952 and 1957. Laskar was also a member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]].<ref name="Kshīrasāgara1994">{{cite book|author=Rāmacandra Kshīrasāgara|title=Dalit Movement in India and Its Leaders, 1857-1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx218EFVU8MC&pg=PA257|accessdate=5 March 2019|year=1994|publisher=M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=978-81-85880-43-3|pages=257–}}</ref><ref name="Sabha2003">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=24 December 2020|year=2003|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=272}}</ref><ref name="Chandra2003">{{cite book|author=Ramesh Chandra|title=Dalit Identity in the New Millennium: Dalit leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYtuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=24 December 2020|year=2003|publisher=Commonwealth Publishers|isbn=978-81-7169-765-6|page=126}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and background==<br />
Nibaran Chandra Laskar was born on 15 January 1902. He was a singer, musician, sportsman, social worker, and educationist. He was a gold medalist and double MA in Sanskrit and Bengali from Dhaka University. He was a founder professor of Gurucharan College, the first college of Cachar district in the state of Assam. He was the founder Principle of Cachar college. Laskar moved into full term politics in 1944. In the year 1961, he resigned from active politics following a protest against Assam Assembly's decision to make Assamese the state language of Assam considering the fact Bengali was also a prominent language of the state. 90% of the population of Barak Valley were bengali speaking. On 13 May 1961 11 protesters were killed by police firing, at a peaceful protest even at Silchar Railway Station. Several MPs and MLAs resigned post that incident and Laskar was one of them. He engaged in social service and philanthropy in later part of his life.{{fact|date=October 2020}}<br />
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He was a Member of Silchar Local Board, Silchar Municipal Board, 1946—49; President of Cachar Kalyan Samiti, 1946–48; General Secretary of Samaj Sanjivani Samiti, Cachar; Member of All India Cottage Industries Board, 1949—52; Member of F.A.O., 1950-52, Deputy Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation, Assam Government, 1951–52; Member of Rehabilitation Finance Administration, 1956–57; Member of Assam Legislative Assembly 1947—52; Member of Constituent Assembly of India, 1947—50; Member of First Lok Sabha, 1952—57; Member of Public Accounts Committee, 1955—57.<ref name=" second lok sabha bio profile">{{cite book|author=parliament. |title=second lok sabha bio profile}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/816.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]<br />
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