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'''Prakash Chandra Das''' (born 27 November 1958) is a politician of [[All India Trinamool Congress]] from the state of [[Tripura]], [[India]]. He is a former Minister in the [[Indian National Congress|INC]]-TUJS coalition government that governed the state of Tripura between 1988-1993. He contested as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate from the [[Bamutia(SC)]] constituency six times consecutively from 1988 to 2013 winning thrice, in 1988, 1998 and 2003.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S23/partycomp03.htm 3 - Bamutia (SC) Assembly Constituency], Election Commission of India</ref> He was the Chairman of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] [[Scheduled Caste|SC]] Department from 2004-16. He was the Chairman of [[Public Accounts Committee (India)|Public Accounts Committee]], [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]] from 2001 to 2008. He also was the [[Chief Whip]] of [[Congress Legislative Party|CLP]] in the Tripura Legislative Assembly from 1998-2003.

==Early life==

He was born on 27 November 1958. He did his graduation of [[Bachelor of Arts]] in History from [[Maharaja Bir Bikram College]], then under the [[University of Calcutta]].

==Political Activities==

He got involved in politics at a young age through [[National Students' Union of India]] in student politics. Gradually he joined [[Indian Youth Congress]] where he was the Vice-President of the state unit for a long time. He contested as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate in the 1988 assembly elections from 3-Bamutia assembly constituency where he defeated the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] candidate and was also a minister in the INC-TUJS alliance that governed the state from 1988-1993. He won again from the same constituency in 1998 and again in 2003. He served as block youth congress president, nsui state general secretary, Vice-President of pradesh youth congress, [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] General Secretary, member of [[All India Congress Committee]]. He was also the chairman of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] SC Department from 2004 till he resigned from the party in June, 2016. He was declared as the Vice-President of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress. He quit trinamool and joined BJP on April, 2017. He rejoined INC in March 2019. He quit INC and joined [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] in July, 2021.

==Other Activities==

He is very active in matters related to upliftment of [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] and in bringing equality to them and economically empowering them. He is the President of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Smriti Jan Kalyan Sanstha, a [[Non-governmental organization]].

== References ==
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[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Tripura]]

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