Tridib Chaudhuri

Member of Parliament
Tridib Chaudhuri
Member of Parliament Tridib Chaudhuri
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) ; for West Bengal
	In office; 1987–1993
	In office; 1993 – 1997 (2 Terms)
Member of the Indian Parliament ; for Behrampore
	In office; 1952-1984
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Atish Chandra Sinha
Constituency	Baharampur
Personal details
Born	12 December 1911; Baharampur, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	1 May 1997 (aged 85); Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political party	Revolutionary Socialist Party
Residence	Kolkata
	As of 17 September, 2006; Source: [1]

Tridib Chaudhuri (12 December 1911 – 11 May 1997) was an Indian politician and Indian independence activist. He was a leader and founder of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Baharampur in West Bengal in India. He was the joint opposition candidate for 1974 Indian presidential election and became the first Bengali to participate in the presidential election in India. He was member of Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1984 and a member of Rajya Sabha from 1987 to 1997 until his death. He had participated in Goa Liberation Movement.^[1] He was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.^[2]

He passed his BA examination in 1933 and subsequently MA in economics from the University of Calcutta as an external candidate from jail, when he was imprisoned for sedition against the colonial rule.^[3]

Lok Sabha experience[edit]

Tridib Chaudhuri was present in seven Lok Sabha.

• 1st Lok Sabha

• 2nd Lok Sabha

• 3rd Lok Sabha

• 4th Lok Sabha

• 5th Lok Sabha

• 6th Lok Sabha

• 7th Lok Sabha

1974 Indian Presidential Election[edit]

On 17 August 1974, the Election Commission of India held indirect 6th presidential elections of India. Tridib Chaudhuri lost to Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed by a margin of 189,196 votes.

Books[edit]

• The Swing Back: A Critical Survey of the Devious Zig-zags of CPI, Political Line (1947–50).

References[edit]

↑ parliamentofindia obituary
↑ "History of Murshidabad". Murshidabad district administration. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
↑ Tridib Chowdhuri and his Growing Relevance by Pramothes Mukherjee

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[1] rliamentofindia obituary

[2] "History of Murshidabad". Murshidabad district administration. Retrieved 1 October 2010.

[Tridib-3] Tridib Chowdhuri and his Growing Relevance by Pramothes Mukherjee

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