Biman Bose

Biman Bose is an Indian politician who was once state Secretary of the West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist).[1] He was later succeeded by his trusted aide, Surya Kanta Mishra, although he remained a Politburo member of the party.[2] He is also Chairman of the Left Front committee of West Bengal.[3][4]

Biman Basu
বিমান বসু
Member of Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Assumed office
11 October 1998
Chairman of the Left Front
Assumed office
2011
Preceded bySailen Dasgupta
West Bengal State Secretary of the CPI(M)
In office
2006–2015
Preceded byAnil Biswas
Succeeded bySurjya Kanta Mishra
Personal details
Born (1940-07-01) 1 July 1940
Calcutta, Bengal, British India
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
ResidenceKolkata

Life

Biman Bose was an alumnus of Maulana Azad College, under the University of Calcutta. During his educational experience, Bose was known to be involved in political and social activities. He participated in an election campaign during an assembly bye-election in 1954, while he was still in school. Though he was recommended for Party in 1957, he was not granted a position until 1958 due to the minimum age requirement being 18 years old. He participated in the movement against Bengal-Bihar merger in 1956 as well as the food movement in 1959, and was imprisoned in 1958.[5] Secretary of the Bengal Provincial Students’ Federation, Kolkata district, and vice-president of the BPSF in 1964, Bose carried on his work as the Assistant Secretary of Indo-Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the mid-1960s. He was the first All India Secretary of Students Federation of India in 1970. He became a member of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1971 and a Secretariat member in 1978. He was elected as a member of the CPI (M) Central Committee in 1985 and as a member of the Politburo in 1998.[6]

References
  1. BS Reporter (13 March 2015). "Surya Kanta Mishra replaces Biman Bose as CPI(M) Bengal unit secretary". Business Standard. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  2. PTI 18 May 2009, 10.41am IST (18 May 2009). "CPM politburo meet on poll debacle on". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  3. "National : Biman Bose will stay: Jyoti Basu". The Hindu. 5 May 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  4. Our Special Correspondent (18 April 2010). "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Bengal | New faces crowd Left Front civic poll list". Telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  5. West Bengal State Committee, CPI (M). "Com. BIMAN BASU". CPI (M) West Bengal State Committee. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  6. West Bengal State Committee, CPI (M). "Com. BIMAN BASU". CPI (M) West Bengal State Committee. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
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