Rupnarayan Roy
Rupnarayan Roy | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1946 - 1947 | |
| Constituency | Dinajpur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1908(assumed) Phulbari Upazila, Dinajpur |
| Died | 24 March 1974 Lalpurdanga, Amrabari Mauza, Phulbari Upazila, Dinajpur |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (until 1947) Communist Party of Pakistan (after 1947) National Awami Party[1](during ban on CPP) Communist Party of Bangladesh (from 1968) |
Rupnarayan Roy was a veteran communist and peasant leader of undivided Bengal and then Bangladesh. One of the three first communist legislators who were elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946.[2] He died a martyr, some miscreants entered his house, called him from his bed at night and beheaded him.[3]
About
[edit]A marxist revolutionary, one of the top organizers of Tebhaga Movement, leader of anti-British movement, MLA of undivided Bengal, organizer of CPB-NAP-BSU led guerrilla force in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ News Review on South Asia. The Institute. 1972.
- ^ Majumdar, Asok (1993). Peasant Protest in Indian Politics: Tebhaga Movement in Bengal. NIB Publishers. ISBN 978-81-85538-01-3.
- ^ Sabha, India Parliament Rajya (1973). Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Council of States Secretariat.
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