Know your Politician
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Panskura (West Bengal )
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Party Name :
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Communist Party of India(CPI)
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Father’s Name
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Late Shri Prafulla Kumar Roychowdhury
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Mother’s Name
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Late Smt. Shaila Bala Roychowdhury
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Date of Birth
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08.01.1924
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Place of Birth
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Calcutta (West Bengal)
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Marital Status
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Married
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Date of Marriage
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08 Nov 1942
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Spouse’s Name
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Late Shri Biswanath Mukherjee
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Educational Qualifications
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B.A.
Educated at Ashutosh College, Calcutta University, Calcutta (West Bengal)
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Profession
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Writer
Social Worker
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Permanent Address |
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Flat-12, Block-D, 18, Bow Street, Calcutta-700012 (West Bengal)
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(033) 2254488
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Position Held |
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1946
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Member, State Committee, Communist Party of India (C.P.I.), Bengal
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1967-77
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Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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Member, Various Committees, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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1978 onwards
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Member, National Council, C.P.I.
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1980
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Elected to 7th Lok Sabha
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1980-83
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Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
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1981-82
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Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
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1981-84
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Member, Joint Committee on Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 1980
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1981 onwards
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Member, National Executive Committee, C.P.I.
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1984
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Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
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1985-86 and 1987-89
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Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
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1989
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Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
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1989-91
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Member, Panel of Chairmen
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1990-91
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Member, General Purposes Committee
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
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1991
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Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)
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1991-92
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Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
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1993-96
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Member, Panel of Chairmen
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1993-95
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Member, Committee on Public Accounts
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1993-97
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Member, Committee on External Affairs
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1993 onwards
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Member, Joint Select Committee on Bills relating to Women
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1996
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Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)
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1996-97
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Chairperson, Joint Select Committee on Reservation of Seats for Women in Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies
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Chairperson, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit
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Member, Panel of Chairmen
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Member, Committee on Communications
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Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women
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1998
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Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)
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1998 onwards
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Member, Secretariat, C.P.I.
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1998-99
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Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
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Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-I
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Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to Women-Criminal Laws
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Member, Committee on Provision of Computers to Members of Parliament
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
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1999
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Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)
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1999-2000
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Member, Committee on Human Resource Development
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Book Published
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(i) Bharat Upakatha; (ii) Chotader Rabindranath; (iii) He Atit Katha Kao (all in Bengali); and (iv) Bengali translation of `Naked among Wolves`
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Literary Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
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Regularly contributing articles to various newspapers and weeklies
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Social And Cultural Activities
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Women`s employment, women`s movement, student movement, peasant movement and eradication of illiteracy; working for womens` empowerment and also for building communal harmony
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Special Interests
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Theory and practice of Marxism and Leninism
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Favourite Pastime and Recreation
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Poetry, songs and socialising with rural women and younger generation
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Countries Visited
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Widely travelled (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Germany, U.A.E., U.K., U.S.A., former U.S.S.R., etc.)
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Other Information
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Participated in the Freedom Struggle; imprisoned several times for participation in mass movements during pre-independence and post-independence periods; Associated with C.P.I. as a student since 1939; General-Secretary, Bengal Provincial Students` Federation, 1947-51; Vice-President, National Federation of Women; Secretariat Member, Women`s International Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1958; Executive Member, National Federation of Indian Women since 1965; Member, (i) National Commission on Rural Labour, 1986, (ii) National Commission on Women, 1988; (iii) National Children`s Board, 1990; (iv) Press Council; and (v) Court of Visva Bharati, 1998-99
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Reference: Loksabha