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	Kumar served as convenor of the [[United Front (1967)\|United Front]] formed ahead of the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Service1967"/><ref>{{cite book\|title=Swarajya\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC8KAQAAIAAJ\|edition=1–13\|volume=13\|year=1968}}</ref> During the protests against the dismissal of the first [[United Front (1967)\|United Front]] cabinet in 1967, Kumar was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act.<ref name="~~Chakrabarty1978~~">{{cite book\|author=~~Saroj Chakrabarty~~\|title=~~With West Bengal chief ministers~~: ~~memoirs, 1962 to 1977~~\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=~~aJcdAAAAMAAJ~~\|~~year~~=~~1978~~\|publisher=~~Chakrabarty\|page=269~~}}</ref><ref name="~~Service1967~~">{{cite book\|author=~~British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service~~\|title=~~Summary of World Broadcasts~~: ~~Far East~~\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=~~L0XRAAAAMAAJ~~\|~~date~~=~~November 1967~~\|publisher=~~Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation~~}}</ref> After the [[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] Kumar was named Food and Supplies Minister in the second United Front state government.<ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book\|author=S. N. Sadasivan\|title=Party and democracy in India\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ\|year=1977\|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill\|page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|title=Intercontinental Press\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwtbAAAAMAAJ\|volume=7\|year=1969\|publisher=Intercontinental Press\|page=275}}</ref><ref name=fr>{{cite book\|title=Notes et études documentaires\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL8LAQAAMAAJ\|edition=3851–3874\|year=1972\|publisher=La Documentation Française\|page=76}}</ref> The Food Minister had been given to the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in the coalition government, but CPI(M) opted to name Kumar as its choice for the post.<ref>{{cite book\|title=Now\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYnNAAAAMAAJ\|volume=6\|publisher=S. Sen\|page=109}}</ref> Kumar was seen as a CPI(M) protege at the time, ''Himmat'' magazine referred to him as the 'blue-eyed boy of [[Jyoti Basu]]'.<ref name=h/><ref name="Ghosh1981"/>		Kumar served as convenor of the [[United Front (1967)\|United Front]] formed ahead of the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Service1967"/><ref>{{cite book\|title=Swarajya\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC8KAQAAIAAJ\|edition=1–13\|volume=13\|year=1968}}</ref> During the protests against the dismissal of the first [[United Front (1967)\|United Front]] cabinet in 1967, Kumar was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act.<ref name="Service1967">{{cite book\|author=British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service\|title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0XRAAAAMAAJ\|date=November 1967\|publisher=Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation}}</ref><ref name="Chakrabarty1978">{{cite book\|author=Saroj Chakrabarty\|title=With West Bengal chief ministers: memoirs, 1962 to 1977\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJcdAAAAMAAJ\|year=1978\|publisher=Chakrabarty\|page=269}}</ref> After the [[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] Kumar was named Food and Supplies Minister in the second United Front state government.<ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book\|author=S. N. Sadasivan\|title=Party and democracy in India\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ\|year=1977\|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill\|page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|title=Intercontinental Press\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwtbAAAAMAAJ\|volume=7\|year=1969\|publisher=Intercontinental Press\|page=275}}</ref><ref name=fr>{{cite book\|title=Notes et études documentaires\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL8LAQAAMAAJ\|edition=3851–3874\|year=1972\|publisher=La Documentation Française\|page=76}}</ref> The Food Minister had been given to the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in the coalition government, but CPI(M) opted to name Kumar as its choice for the post.<ref>{{cite book\|title=Now\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYnNAAAAMAAJ\|volume=6\|publisher=S. Sen\|page=109}}</ref> Kumar was seen as a CPI(M) protege at the time, ''Himmat'' magazine referred to him as the 'blue-eyed boy of [[Jyoti Basu]]'.<ref name=h/><ref name="Ghosh1981"/>

	==First tenure as Food Minister==		==First tenure as Food Minister==

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'''Sudhindranath Kumar''' (died 1984) was an Indian politician, belonging to the [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]. He served as general secretary of the party 1960–1984, represented [[Howrah Madhya (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Howrah Central constituency]] in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] and served as Food Minister of the state in 1969 and 1977–1982.

==Howrah conference==
Kumar became the general secretary of the RCPI (Pannanlal Dasgupta group) at the All India Conference held in [[Howrah]] in 1960.<ref name=tr>Alexander, Robert J.. ''[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/india.htm Trotskyism in India]''</ref> He held the post until his death.<ref name=q/> As of 1963 he was listed as the editor of the monthly ''Marxism Today''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Press in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuEfAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers.|page=519}}</ref>

==United Front period==
Kumar served as convenor of the [[United Front (1967)|United Front]] formed ahead of the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Service1967"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Swarajya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC8KAQAAIAAJ|edition=1–13|volume=13|year=1968}}</ref> During the protests against the dismissal of the first [[United Front (1967)|United Front]] cabinet in 1967, Kumar was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act.<ref name="Chakrabarty1978">{{cite book|author=Saroj Chakrabarty|title=With West Bengal chief ministers: memoirs, 1962 to 1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJcdAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Chakrabarty|page=269}}</ref><ref name="Service1967">{{cite book|author=British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service|title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0XRAAAAMAAJ|date=November 1967|publisher=Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation}}</ref> After the [[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] Kumar was named Food and Supplies Minister in the second United Front state government.<ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Intercontinental Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwtbAAAAMAAJ|volume=7|year=1969|publisher=Intercontinental Press|page=275}}</ref><ref name=fr>{{cite book|title=Notes et études documentaires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL8LAQAAMAAJ|edition=3851–3874|year=1972|publisher=La Documentation Française|page=76}}</ref> The Food Minister had been given to the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in the coalition government, but CPI(M) opted to name Kumar as its choice for the post.<ref>{{cite book|title=Now|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYnNAAAAMAAJ|volume=6|publisher=S. Sen|page=109}}</ref> Kumar was seen as a CPI(M) protege at the time, ''Himmat'' magazine referred to him as the 'blue-eyed boy of [[Jyoti Basu]]'.<ref name=h/><ref name="Ghosh1981"/>

==First tenure as Food Minister==
Kumar's tenure as minister was short and turbulent. The two elected RCPI state legislators, [[Anadi Das]] and [[M. Mokshed Ali]], accused Kumar of having tried to coerce them to resign in order for Kumar to be able to contest their seats in a by-poll.<ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Recorder and Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nXiAAAAMAAJ|volume=15|year=1969|page=69}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Economic and Political Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgsoAAAAMAAJ|edition=11–26|volume=4|year=1969|publisher=Sameeksha Trust.|page=866}}</ref> In July 1969 Kumar expelled both of the RCPI legislators from RCPI, creating a split in the party.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> Around the same time two United Front member parties, the [[All India Forward Bloc]] and the [[Socialist Unity Centre of India]], demanded Kumar's resignation.<ref>{{cite book|title=Socialism and communism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uBRAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|page=381}}</ref> A June 1969 edition of ''[[Himmat (magazine)|Himmat]]'' reported that Kumar was about to lose his ministerial post.<ref name=h>{{cite book|title=Himmat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhTmAAAAMAAJ|volume=5|year=1969|page=17}}</ref> As the [[West Bengal Legislative Council]] was abolished in August 1969 (to which Kumar, in theory, had a chance to get elected) and none of the elected legislators had been willing to resign to enable Kumar to get elected, Kumar was forced to resign from his ministerial post.<ref name="Rao2003">{{cite book|author=M. V. S. Koteswara Rao|title=Communist parties and United Front experience in Kerala and West Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e0SAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Prajasakti Book House|isbn=978-81-86317-37-2|page=266}}</ref>

==1971 elections==
After the fall of the United Front cabinet, the RCPI (Sudhin Kumar group) joined the CPI(M)-led United Left Front.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Science Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOokAQAAMAAJ|volume=18–19|year=1979|publisher=Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan.|page=31}}</ref> The front, which was formally constituted in May 1970, had Kumar as its convenor.<ref name="Ghosh1981">{{cite book|author=Anjali Ghosh|title=Peaceful Transition to Power: A Study of Marxist Political Strategies in West Bengal, 1967–1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3EeAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Firma KLM|pages=, 93, 111}}</ref> Kumar, along with [[Hare Krishna Konar]] of CPI(M), was tasked with drafting the joint electoral manifesto.<ref name=fr/>

Kumar won the Howrah Central seat, defeating the candidates of [[Congress(O)]], [[Bangla Congress]] as well as his former party comrade Anadi Das.<ref name=s1971>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1971 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> He obtained 12,616 votes (39.80%).<ref name=s1971/> However, in the subsequent [[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] Kumar lost the Howrah Central seat to Mrityunjoy Banerjee.<ref name=s1972>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1972 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> Kumar finished in second place with 15,870 votes (37.77%).<ref name=s1972/>

==Second tenure as Food Minister==
Kumar regained the Howrah Central seat in the [[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name=s1977>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> He obtained 21,502 votes (44.50%).<ref name=s1977/> After the 1977 election, Kumar was named Minister for Food and Civil Supplies in the first [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] cabinet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KdRtAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press|page=lviii}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5sgQAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|page=873}}</ref>

Kumar lost the Howrah Central seat to [[Indian National Congress|Congress(I)]] candidate [[Ambica Banerjee]] in the [[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name=s1982>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1982 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> Kumar finished in second place with 29,785 votes (43.34%).<ref name=s1982/> After having lost his assembly seat, Kumar lost his post as minister.<ref name=sudhin>''India Today''. ''[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/coming-rajya-sabha-polls-prove-to-be-a-severe-test-for-west-bengal-political-parties/1/360619.html West Bengal: Seating scrap]''</ref> [[Bimalananda Mukherjee]] replaced him as the RCPI representative in the Left Front government.<ref>{{cite book|title=Janata|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgxDAAAAYAAJ|volume=37|year=1982|page=214}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Data India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5H1DAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Press Institute of India|page=323}}</ref>

Kumar died in 1984.<ref name=q>{{cite book|title=The Annual Register of Indian Political Parties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKokAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Michiko & Panjathan|page=256}}</ref>

==References==
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