Ashim Chatterjee: Difference between revisions

'''Ashim Chatterjee''' is an Indian politician and a former [[Naxalite]] leader.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19981213/34750124.html|title=In Marxist bastion, Hindu and Muslim students live separately|last=Bandopadhyay    |date=13 December 1998|work=[[The Indian Express]]|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref> He was a student of the then [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]], Kolkata, and leader of firstly Bengal Provincial Student's Federation (then student wing of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]) and then student leader of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] (CPI(ML)) in [[Calcutta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/33646/naxal-enigma.html|title=Naxal enigma|last=Akbar|first=M .J |date=19 February 2010|work=[[Deccan Herald]]|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref> Chatterjee broke ranks with [[Charu Majumdar]] in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement in the Debra-Gopiballavbur area in [[West Bengal]] and due to the opposition of CPI(ML) towards the liberation struggle of Bangladesh. He was imprisoned during 1972–78. Chatterjee formed the Bengal-Bihar-Odisha Border Regional Committee, CPI(ML) as a separate faction. His group joined the CPI(ML) of [[Satyanarayan Singh (Bihar politician, died 1984)|Satyanarayan Singh]]. Later Chatterjee formed the [[Communist Revolutionary League of India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacw.net/kargil/Ashim_Chatterj.html|title=Real issues are clouded by national chauvinism|last=Chatterjee|first=Ashim |date=18 June 1999|work=The Asian Age|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref>

He unsuccessfully contested West Bengal legislative assembly (Bidhan Sabha) elections twice - first as a [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPI(M)) supported Independent and in 2006, as a [[Trinamool Congress]] supported candidate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060425/asp/frontpage/story_6142420.asp|title='70s' nemesis, now comrade - Ex-Naxal leader Ashim Chatterjee on same side as Ray|last=Datta|first=Sujan|date=25 April 2006|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref> He is popularly called as comrade Kaka.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/63259/Top%20Stories/The+new+face+of+Naxalism.html|title=The new face of Naxalism|last=Banerjee|first=Aloke |date=24 September 2009|work=[[India Today]]|accessdate=19 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021006202400.htm|title='Thunder' is just a memory|last=CHATTOPADHYAY|first=SUHRID SANKAR|date=8 October 2005|work=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]|accessdate=19 February 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207194610/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021006202400.htm|archivedate=7 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>