Biography

BHATTACHARYA, SHRI NANI

[R.S.P. – Berhampore (West Bengal)]

Positions held

1936-40

1940

1962-67, 1969-70, 1977-82 &
1982-87

1962-67

1967, 1969 & 1977-82

1982-87

1989

1989

1990

1991

6th November, 1917

Khagra in Distt. Murshidabad (West Bengal)

Unmarried

B.A.,
Educated at Calcutta University, Calcutta and Arnakali Tole (Sanskrit),
Berhampore, (West Bengal)

Social and Political Worker, Trade Unionist, Journalist and Writer

37, Ripon Street, Calcutta (West Bengal)

19, Canning Lane, New Delhi-110001. Tel. 3715591

Secretary, INC, Sub-Divisional Committee, Berhampore, West Bengal

Founder Member, R.S.P.

Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly

Member, Estimates Committee and several other Committees, West Bengal
Legislative Assembly

Cabinet Minister, Health, West Bengal

Cabinet Minister, Irrigation, West Bengal

Secretary, R.S.P., West Bengal

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth)

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth)

Published several books, booklets and political journals, Dainik
Ganabarta (a daily newspaper); composed poems; wrote articles on social
affairs, political and economic subjects

Welfare work during epidemics and natural calamities; worker of Anushilan
Samiti; Member, Lokayata Samaj Trust and Lekhak Samabay

Literary and cultural activities

Feature writing and reading; composition of poetry and chess

Organised a number of clubs and physical cultural centres; associated with
Kranti Shilpi Sangha for a long time

FRG, Indonesia, Italy, Thailand, U.K., U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.; Member,
Delegation to Far East Asia, Italy and USSR.

Participated in the national struggle and against Imperialist War,
1939-45 under Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose; Internment during 1936-38;
imprisonment during 1940-46; imprisoned on a number of occasions before and
after 1947; Organised Tea Garden Workers’ Movement; involved in underground
activities during emergency, 1975; President, Darjeeling and Dooars Cha
Bagan Workers Union; General Secretary, United Trade Union Congress; General
Secretary, United Kisan Sabha, West Bengal; Member, Court of Vishwa Bharti,
February 9, 1990; Member, Minimum Wages Advisory Committee; Member,
Industrial Committee on Plantation; Member, Tea Board of India and Member
Director, Board, Lekhak Samabay and Lokayata Samaj.