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	===Wholetime Political Worker===		===Wholetime Political Worker===
	As [[Shyamali Gupta]] got a job in the Bankura College, he instantaneously decided to leave his job to be a full-time [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] worker in the early seventies. In 1977, when [[Jyoti Basu]] became the Chief Minister of the 1st Left Front Government, Sankar Gupta was asked to be his Political Secretary. In 1982 assembly elections, Sankar Gupta contested and won from [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html \|title=~~Archived copy~~ \|accessdate=2013-12-15 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215073648/http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html \|archivedate=15 December 2013 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was made the Minister of Power in the 2nd Left Front Government. In 1983, he became the member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] West Bengal State Committee. He along with [[Shyamal Chakraborty]] met with a severe accident as they were heading towards [[Santaldih]] from [[Durgapur]] to stop the closure of the [[Santaldih Thermal Power Station]]. Even with ailing health as he hopped between hospitals for treatment, he continued his work to increase power generation.		As [[Shyamali Gupta]] got a job in the Bankura College, he instantaneously decided to leave his job to be a full-time [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] worker in the early seventies. In 1977, when [[Jyoti Basu]] became the Chief Minister of the 1st Left Front Government, Sankar Gupta was asked to be his Political Secretary. In 1982 assembly elections, Sankar Gupta contested and won from [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)\|Jadavpur]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html \|title=Lok Sabha, Assembly Election Results and News of all States in India: Bidhan Sabha election results of Jadavpur assembly constituency \|accessdate=2013-12-15 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215073648/http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html \|archivedate=15 December 2013 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was made the Minister of Power in the 2nd Left Front Government. In 1983, he became the member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] West Bengal State Committee. He along with [[Shyamal Chakraborty]] met with a severe accident as they were heading towards [[Santaldih]] from [[Durgapur]] to stop the closure of the [[Santaldih Thermal Power Station]]. Even with ailing health as he hopped between hospitals for treatment, he continued his work to increase power generation.

	==Death==		==Death==
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	During the turbulent sixties, when the hatred and terror against the Communists reigned supreme, [[Field Marshal (India)\|Field Marshal]] [[K. M. Cariappa]] was launching an anti-Communist propaganda in a speech at the [[Jadavpur University]] campus, where he was intent to prove the Communists as seditious. Then Field Marshal [[K. M. Cariappa]] had asked "Is there a Communist in this room?" The student who could stand up bravely and proudly "Yes sir. Here is one. I am Sankar Gupta, I am a Communist" - a statement which later became legendary among the leftist student leaders in the years to follow.		During the turbulent sixties, when the hatred and terror against the Communists reigned supreme, [[Field Marshal (India)\|Field Marshal]] [[K. M. Cariappa]] was launching an anti-Communist propaganda in a speech at the [[Jadavpur University]] campus, where he was intent to prove the Communists as seditious. Then Field Marshal [[K. M. Cariappa]] had asked "Is there a Communist in this room?" The student who could stand up bravely and proudly "Yes sir. Here is one. I am Sankar Gupta, I am a Communist" - a statement which later became legendary among the leftist student leaders in the years to follow.

	One of the prime organisers of the Bengal Provincial Committee of the [[All India Students Federation]], which split later in 1964 following ideological battle against revisionism, he along with the major fraction of the Bengal Provincial Committee took a leftist stand and the fraction came to be known as the BPSF (Left) or SF(Left). He married fellow SF(Left) leader [[Shyamali Gupta\|Shyamali]], who later became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] Central Committee, and the All-India President of the [[All India Democratic Women's Association]]. As BPSF leaders, they took active role in organizing protest rallies against the [[Vietnam War]] in the sixties, and expressed solidarity with the Vietnamese people's struggle for liberty and socialism.<ref>http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-cpi-m-leader-shyamali-gupta-passes-away-1924778</ref>		One of the prime organisers of the Bengal Provincial Committee of the [[All India Students Federation]], which split later in 1964 following ideological battle against revisionism, he along with the major fraction of the Bengal Provincial Committee took a leftist stand and the fraction came to be known as the BPSF (Left) or SF(Left). He married fellow SF(Left) leader [[Shyamali Gupta\|Shyamali]], who later became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)\|CPI(M)]] Central Committee, and the All-India President of the [[All India Democratic Women's Association]]. As BPSF leaders, they took active role in organizing protest rallies against the [[Vietnam War]] in the sixties, and expressed solidarity with the Vietnamese people's struggle for liberty and socialism.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-cpi-m-leader-shyamali-gupta-passes-away-1924778\|title=CPI-M leader Shyamali Gupta passes away\|date=25 November 2013}}</ref>

	===Education Movement===		===Education Movement===

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| birth_place = Kolkata
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'''Sankar Gupta''' (1940 - 1983) was an Indian Communist leader. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was elected as a Member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly of West Bengal]] from [[Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur constituency]] in 1982.

==Political career==

===Student Movement===
During the turbulent sixties, when the hatred and terror against the Communists reigned supreme, [[Field Marshal (India)|Field Marshal]] [[K. M. Cariappa]] was launching an anti-Communist propaganda in a speech at the [[Jadavpur University]] campus, where he was intent to prove the Communists as seditious. Then Field Marshal [[K. M. Cariappa]] had asked "Is there a Communist in this room?" The student who could stand up bravely and proudly "Yes sir. Here is one. I am Sankar Gupta, I am a Communist" - a statement which later became legendary among the leftist student leaders in the years to follow.

One of the prime organisers of the Bengal Provincial Committee of the [[All India Students Federation]], which split later in 1964 following ideological battle against revisionism, he along with the major fraction of the Bengal Provincial Committee took a leftist stand and the fraction came to be known as the BPSF (Left) or SF(Left). He married fellow SF(Left) leader [[Shyamali Gupta|Shyamali]], who later became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] Central Committee, and the All-India President of the [[All India Democratic Women's Association]]. As BPSF leaders, they took active role in organizing protest rallies against the [[Vietnam War]] in the sixties, and expressed solidarity with the Vietnamese people's struggle for liberty and socialism.<ref>http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-cpi-m-leader-shyamali-gupta-passes-away-1924778</ref>

===Education Movement===
As his comrades [[Shyamal Chakraborty]], [[Biman Bose]], [[Subhas Chakraborty]] became wholetimers of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]], Sankar could not turn out to be one as he had to look after his family being the eldest son. He took a job in the Burul High School (near Nodakhali in [[South 24 Parganas district]]). He continued to instill fervour in the Students' Movement. In March 1967, he took a job as an assistant professor in the [[University of North Bengal]]. In the same year, he married Shyamali as she was released from prison. Even during the times of Naxal terror, he remained in [[Siliguri]] and continued to inspire the students, and organized the university teachers' movement. He was also a member of the West Bengal State Committee of the Democratic Youth Federation (which later merged into the [[Democratic Youth Federation of India]]).

===Wholetime Political Worker===
As [[Shyamali Gupta]] got a job in the Bankura College, he instantaneously decided to leave his job to be a full-time [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] worker in the early seventies. In 1977, when [[Jyoti Basu]] became the Chief Minister of the 1st Left Front Government, Sankar Gupta was asked to be his Political Secretary. In 1982 assembly elections, Sankar Gupta contested and won from [[Jadavpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jadavpur]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-12-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215073648/http://electionnewsresults.blogspot.in/2012/08/bidhan-sabha-election-results-of_6474.html |archivedate=15 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was made the Minister of Power in the 2nd Left Front Government. In 1983, he became the member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] West Bengal State Committee. He along with [[Shyamal Chakraborty]] met with a severe accident as they were heading towards [[Santaldih]] from [[Durgapur]] to stop the closure of the [[Santaldih Thermal Power Station]]. Even with ailing health as he hopped between hospitals for treatment, he continued his work to increase power generation.

==Death==
He died untimely at the age of 43, just one year into his tenure as a minister and as an MLA.

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