Birat Chandra Mandal

Birat Chandra Mandal was a member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. He had argued for the constitution of Pakistan to be secular.[1]

Career

Mandal represented Bengal Depressed Classes Association at the All India Depressed Classes Association meeting at Shimla in 1930.[2] He supported the creation of separate electorates for low caste and high caste Hindus.[3]

Mandal argued that Mohmmad Ali Jinah had said Pakistan would be a secular state.[4][5] On 9 March 1949, he was made the law and labour minister of Pakistan.[6] He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.[7]

Death

Mandal died on 5 October 1964 in Kolkata, West Bengal.[8]

References
  1. Manchanda, Rita (2010). States in Conflict with Their Minorities: Challenges to Minority Rights in South Asia. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN 978-93-85985-93-5. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. "Bengal Depressed Classes Association". Banglapedia. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. Sen, Dwaipayan (2018). The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal. Cambridge University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-108-41776-1.
  4. "TOBA TEK SINGH The City". The News International. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  5. "Rediscovering the real ideology of Pakistan". Daily Times (Op-ed). 26 March 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. "Speech of Birat Chandra Mandal Jogender (Pakistan's first minister of law and labour)". Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  7. Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Debates: Official Report. Manager of Publications. 1954. p. 571.
  8. Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. 1964. p. 39. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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