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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Paul Mantosh
| birth_name = Paul Mantosh
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| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]]
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| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Lok Sabha]]
| constituency = [[Anglo-Indian reserved seats in the Lok Sabha|Nominated Anglo-Indian]]
| term_start = 1990
| term_end = 1991
| predecessor = [[Frank Anthony]]
| successor = [[Frank Anthony]]
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| otherparty = [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)]]<br /> [[Janata Party]] <br /> [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]]
| spouse = Sandra Hogg
| children = 2
| occupation = Political and Social Worker
| alma_mater = University of Calcutta
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'''Paul Mantosh''' is a prominent member of the [[Anglo-Indian]] community in [[India]]. He was a [[Member of Parliament]], representing [[Anglo-Indian reserved seats in the Lok Sabha]] the [[lower house]] of [[Parliament of India|India's Parliament]] as a member of the [[Janata Dal]].<ref>[http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3332.htm Member Profile]</ref>

He started his political career as a youth activist in January 1967. In 1969, on the split of the Congress Party, he went with the [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)]] and in 1977 was a member of [[Janata Party]]. From 1980 to 1983, Secretary of [[Bharatiya Lok Dal-West Bengal]]. Then was a member of [[Janata Dal]]. Nominated by the President of India to the Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament representing the Anglo-Indian community. Prominent Anglo-Indians and even non Anglo-Indians like Mother Teresa and union minister George Fernandes recommended his nomination.

He was also Vice-President, All India Catholic Union, Executive Committee Member, Catholic Association of Bengal and regularly contributed to The Herald (Catholic weekly).
He was later briefly associated with the [[Moral Re-Armament|MRA]] (now, [[Initiatives of Change|IofC]]) led by [[Rajmohan Gandhi]], grandson of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].

Paul Mantosh was associated with the [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] led Anti-[[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] movement of 1975–1977, under the leadership of [[Karpoori Thakur]], who was later Chief Minister of Bihar. Since there was total censorship of all news and newspapers and journals by the government and tens of thousands of opposition leaders and activists were put in jail without trial or court orders, Paul Mantosh and his comrades would clandestinely circulate regular news broadcasts of Radio Germany, Voice of America and BBC about the Emergency in India. The [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] in India was finally lifted in 1977 after international pressure, specially from [[Willy Brandt]] of Germany, Chancellor [[Bruno Kreisky|Bruno Kriesky]] of Austria, Prime Minister [[Olof Palme|Olaf Palme]] of Sweden, Prime Minister [[Joop den Uyl]], of the Netherlands and Prime Minister [[Odvar Nordli]] of Norway, all of whose parties were in the Socialist International, to which the former Catholic seminarian turned firebrand Indian politician, [[George Fernandes]]' [[Socialist Party (India)|Socialist Party]], also belonged.

Paul Mantosh stood for elections though unsuccessfully to Parliament (Lok Sabha) and later to Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. He is a veteran of many election campaigns including for [[Pratap Chandra Chunder|Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder]], then Education Minister of India and for [[Rajmohan Gandhi]] in Amethi, U.P.

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* {{cite web |url=https://www.aiadanapur.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=81 |title=A.I. Members of {{sic|Parli|ment|hide=y}} of FIRST LOK SABHA (17.4.1952 - 4.4.1957) |website=aiadanapur.org |access-date=2019-08-01}}

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