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	'''Satyapriya Banerjee''' (born 25 August 1893, d. 1957<ref name="i"/><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NFbVAAAAMAAJ Lok Sabha Debates]'', Part 2, Vol. 4, Ed. 1. Lok Sabha Secretariat., 1957. p. 69</ref>) was an Indian politician and [[trade union]]ist.		'''Satyapriya Banerjee''' (born 25 August 1893, d. 1957<ref name="i"/><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NFbVAAAAMAAJ Lok Sabha Debates]'', Part 2, Vol. 4, Ed. 1. Lok Sabha Secretariat., 1957. p. 69</ref>) was an Indian politician and [[trade union]]ist.

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'''Satyapriya Banerjee''' (born 25 August 1893, d. 1957<ref name="i"/><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NFbVAAAAMAAJ Lok Sabha Debates]'', Part 2, Vol. 4, Ed. 1. Lok Sabha Secretariat., 1957. p. 69</ref>) was an Indian politician and [[trade union]]ist.

==Early years==
Banerjee went to [[Berlin]] for studies, and obtained [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Laws]] degrees. In 1920 he founded the Samaj Sevak Sangh.<ref name="i"/> In 1928 he became the founding secretary of the All Bengal Youth Association.<ref>Saha, Panchanan. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gy1uAAAAMAAJ Dr. Bhupendranath Dutta: Revolutionary Patriot]''. Kolkata: Biswabiksha, 2004. p. 106</ref>

==Struggle for Independence==
Banerjee served as secretary of the [[Bengal Provincial Congress Committee]]. Working closely with [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], he left the [[Indian National Congress]] along with Bose and founded the [[All India Forward Bloc]] (in which Banerjee became secretary).<ref name="i"/> Banerjee was a member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]] between 1937 and 1945, and a member of the [[Central Legislative Assembly]] 1946-1947.<ref name="i">Sud, S. P. Singh, and Ajit Singh Sud. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ATs0AAAAIAAJ Indian Elections and Legislators]''. Ludhiana: All India Publications, 1953. pp. 168-169</ref> During the [[Partition of India|Partition]] Banerjee was active in the United Central Refugee Council.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hkJuAAAAMAAJ Bengal: Past and Present]'', Vol. 119. Calcutta Historical Society., 2000. p. 167</ref>

==Trade unionist==
Banerjee served as president of the Bengal Provincial Trade Union Congress and vice-president of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]].<ref name="i"/>

==Bowbazar election==
Banerjee stood as a candidate in [[Bowbazar]] in the [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]. His candidature was supported by different left parties. Banerjee was defeated by the Congress candidate [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]].<ref name="bc">Chakrabarty, Saroj, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Bidhan Chandra Roy. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_m8dAAAAMAAJ With Dr. B.C. Roy and Other Chief Ministers: A Record Upto 1962]''. Calcutta: Benson's, 1974. p. 196</ref> Roy obtained 13,910 votes, whilst Banerjee got 9,799 votes (41.33%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> The day following the elections, riots broke out.<ref name="bc"/>

==Split in the Forward Bloc==
He was elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]] in the same year, and remained in that post until 1956.<ref name="c"/> Inside the party, Banerjee was a prominent member of the left-wing tendency. The party was torn on the issue of cooperation with the [[Communist Party of India]]. The conflict escalated during [[1953 Calcutta South East by-election|the by-election]] in [[Calcutta South East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta South East Lok Sabha constituency]] (called after the death of incumbent [[Syama Prasad Mookerjee]]). Banerjee's group supported the Communist Party [[Sadhan Gupta]] candidate rather than the official Forward Bloc candidate.<ref>Saha, Sanghamitra. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=92EwAQAAIAAJ A Handbook of West Bengal]'', Vol. 1. Thiruvananthapuram: International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 1998. p. 153</ref> Banerjee was expelled from the party, along with Amar Bose and Suhurit Chaudhury, by the Working Committee of the All India Forward Bloc.<ref name="m">Shashi, Shyam Singh. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_0vAQAAIAAJ Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh]''. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1996. p. 132</ref> At the time Banerjee was the sole national parliamentarian of the party.<ref>Weiner, Myron. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=v2IrAAAAYAAJ Party politics in India]''. 1972. p. 127</ref> Banerjee and the other expellees founded the [[Marxist Forward Bloc]] in April 1954.<ref name="c">Communist Party of India (Marxist). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CNeNAAAAMAAJ Election Results of West Bengal: Statistics & Analysis, 1952-1991]'', Vol. 1. Calcutta: The Committee, 1995. p. 650</ref><ref name="m"/>

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