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| name = Purnendu Dastidar
| native_name = পূর্ণেন্দু দস্তিদার
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| birth_place = Dhalghat, [[Chittagong District|Chittagong district]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|05|09|1909|06|20}}
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| mother = Kumudini Dastider
| father = Chandra Kumar Dastider
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'''Purnendu Dastidar''' ({{lang-bn|পূর্ণেন্দু দস্তিদার}}; 14 June 1909 – 9 May 1971) was a [[Bengal]]i politician, writer and lawyer.<ref name="Assembly1957">{{cite book|author=East Pakistan (Pakistan). Assembly|title=Alphabetical List of Members|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E13VAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=East Pakistan Government Press|page=48}}</ref><ref name="Bangladesh2003">{{cite book |last=Bhuiyan |first=Golam Kibria |year=2012 |chapter=Dastidar, Purnendu |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dastidar,_Purnendu |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> A key leader of the [[Communist Party of Bangladesh|Communist Party of East Pakistan]], Dastidar was jailed for over two decades.<ref name="Assembly1957"/><ref name="Bangladesh2003"/><ref name="Congress1972">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India. Congress|title=Documents of the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of India, Ghatenagar, Cochin, 3 to 10 October 1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q_O17l3HVA8C|year=1972|publisher=Communist Party of India; copy from People's Publishing House|page=380}}</ref>

==Student years and revolutionary struggle==
Dastidar was born in Dalghat village, [[Chittagong District]].<ref name="Assembly1957"/><ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He was the son of Chandra Kumar Dastidar, an officer of the Chittagong Law Court.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He passed his I.sc. exam from Chittagong College in 1927.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He went on to study at the Jadavpur Engineering and Technology College.<ref name="Assembly1957"/> He was a member of the Chittagong [[Jugantar]] Party, and took part in guerrilla actions against British targets together with [[Surya Sen]], [[Kalpana Dutta]] and [[Pritilata Waddedar]].<ref name="Singh2009">{{cite book|author=M.K. Singh|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian War of Independence (1857–1947)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVYwAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd|isbn=978-81-261-3745-9}}</ref><ref name="Mandal1991">{{cite book|author=Tirtha Mandal|title=The women revolutionaries of Bengal, 1905–1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v1tuAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Minerva Associates (Publications)|pages=39, 90}}</ref> In 1931, during his student years in Calcutta, he was imprisoned.<ref name="Assembly1957"/> The British authorities charged him with being an associate of guerrilla leader Surya Sen.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He was able to complete his B.A. and B.L. degrees whilst in jail. He was released from jail in 1938, but remained interned in his home village until 1941. From 1941 onwards he began practising Law.<ref name="Assembly1957"/>

==Community work==
In Chittagong Dastidar founded the 'Babies Hospital', offering health care to poor children. During the years of war and famine 1942–1945, he organised relief efforts in Chittagong. He was also the organiser of relief efforts in 1947 following the sinking of S.S. Mallard near [[Cox's Bazar]].<ref name="Assembly1957"/>

==Jailed legislator==
Dastidar became a member of the [[Communist Party of Pakistan]] in 1948.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He was arrested again, and jailed for seven years. In 1954, whilst in jail, he was elected to the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly|East Pakistan Legislative Assembly]] from a minority reserved seat in Chittagong.<ref name="Assembly1957"/><ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> He defeated Binod Bihari Dutta of the Congress party.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/> Dastidar was released in 1956.<ref name="Assembly1957"/> In the Legislative Assembly he tabled a resolution calling for the construction of a memorial tower in honour of the Chittagong rebellion of 18 April 1930, which was passed by the assembly.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/>

==NAP leader==
Dastidar organised student, labour and peasants groups in Chittagong.<ref name="Rahman2010">{{cite book|author=Syedur Rahman|title=Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJfcCPUr0OoC&pg=PA83|date=27 April 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7453-4|page=83}}</ref> In 1957 Dastidar became a member of the [[National Awami Party]] (NAP). Following the [[1958 Pakistani coup d'état|declaration of Martial Law in 1958]], Dastidar was once again jailed. He was released in 1962. Upon his release from jail he became the president of the Chittagong City branch of NAP.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/>

Along with other communist leaders, Dastidar was jailed at the time of the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|September 1965 Indo-Pakistan war]]. He was released in 1969, in connection with the ongoing mass protests which forced [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] to release all political prisoners.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/><ref name="Kabir1980">{{cite book|author=Muhammad Ghulam Kabir|title=Minority Politics in Bangladesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQgNAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Vikas|isbn=978-0-7069-0837-4|page=77}}</ref> After being released he was active in the [[National Awami Party (Wali)|NAP of Wali Khan]]. He contested the Chittagong-11 in the provincial assembly elections of 1970, but lost to an [[Awami League]] candidate.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/>

==1971 Liberation War==
As the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] broke out in 1971 Dastidar left for India to join the struggle, but died of exhaustion en route.<ref name="Bangladesh2003"/>

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Purnendu Dastidar - Revision history

>Md. Golam Mukit Khan: +Infobox