Dipankar Bhattacharya

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Dipankar Bhattacharya
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Bhattacharya speaking at a public meet in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
General Secretary of CPIML Liberation
Assumed office
1998
Preceded byVinod Mishra
Personal details
BornDecember 1960 (age 64)[1]
Guwahati, Assam, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
EducationRamakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Indian Statistical Institute
ProfessionPolitician


Dipankar Bhattacharya ( born on December,1960[2]) is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation.[3][4] He was the top ranker of the 1979 higher secondary board examination and has an M.Stat. degree from the Indian Statistical Institute.[5] Bhattacharya succeeded Vinod Mishra as the general secretary of the party in 1998.[2] He was formerly the general secretary of the Indian People's Front and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions.[6]

Early life and education[edit]

Dipankar Bhattacharya was born in Guwahati, Assam in December 1960.[citation needed] His father was Baidyanath Bhattacharya who was an employee of the Indian Railways.[7] He studied in Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur near Kolkata and was the top ranker of the 1979 board examination of the West Bengal Higher Secondary board.[6] After completing his higher secondary, he joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.[7] He graduated with a Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat.) degree in 1982 and completed his post-graduation with a Master of Statistics (M.Stat.) degree in 1984.[5]

Political views[edit]

Bhattacharya states that a large section of the population is rendered invisible in the country and that only a tiny minority holds the reins of political power and benefits from economic progress. He holds the view that economic growth in India has not coincided with the empowerment of people and defines empowerment as material questions such as employment, education, housing and hygiene, that the policies of privatisation and commercialisation of healthcare and education are contradictory to the vision of an empowered India promoting further dis-empowerment.[8]

Political career[edit]

Dipankar Bhattacharya became involved in political work during his course in the Indian Statistical Institute.[7] He served as the general secretary of the Indian People's Front between 1982 and 1994[9] and later became the general secretary of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions. In December 1987, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation. After the demise of Vinod Mishra who was the general secretary of the party, Bhattacharya was unanimously elected to the post.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Dipankar Bhattacharya: The revolutionary statistician in Left's Bihar rise
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bose, Sumantra (2013). Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-674-05066-2.
  3. ↑ Sen, Jai (2012). Imagining Alternatives. Other worlds possible?. Gazipur: Daanish Books. p. 15. ISBN 978-93-81144-14-5.
  4. ↑ "Organisation". cpiml.org.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "List of Degree/Diploma/Certificate recipients of ISI". Indian Statistical Institute.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Bhushan, Ranjit (2016). Maoism in India and Nepal. New York: Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-315-68549-6.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Dipankar Bhattacharya on some of his favourite teachers". Times of India (New Delhi ed.). 8 August 2008.
  8. ↑ Gupta, Shekhar (2006). India Empowered: Change agents speak on an Idea whose time has come. The Express Group & Penguin Books. pp. 45–38. ISBN 0-67099-949-0.
  9. ↑ Chand, Attar (1992). President Shankar Dayal Sharma, the Scholar and the Statesman. New Delhi: Anmol Publication. p. 128. ISBN 8-17041-678-7.
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