Bhupesh Gupta

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Bhupesh Gupta
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1952–1981
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Personal details
Born(1914-10-20)20 October 1914
Itna, Mymensingh District, Bengal Province, British India
(now in Bangladesh)
Died6 August 1981(1981-08-06) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
(now Moscow, Russia)
OccupationParliamentarian

Bhupesh Gupta (Bengali: ভূপেশ গুপ্ত) (20 October 1914 – 6 August 1981) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.

Early life[edit]

He was born at Itna, in the erstwhile Mymensingh District of Bengal Province in British India. He studied at the renowned Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta.[1][need quotation to verify]

Bhupesh Gupta joined Bengal revolutionaries in his school days.

Later life[edit]

He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for five terms from West Bengal, from 3 April 1952 till his death. He was reelected in 1958, 1964,1970 and 1976. He was a skilled parliamentarian. He died in Moscow on 6 August 1981.

References[edit]

  1. Datta 2008, p. 592

Sources[edit]

  • Datta, Asit, ed. (2008), "Some Alumni of Scottish Church College", 175th Year Commemoration Volume, Kolkata, India: Scottish Church College, OCLC 243677369