Ganesh Ghosh

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Ganesh Ghosh
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Personal details
Born(1900-06-22)22 June 1900
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Parent
  • Bipinbehari Ghosh (father)

Ganesh Ghosh (22 June 1900 – 16 October 1994)[1] was an Indian independence activist, revolutionary and politician.

Biography

Ganesh Ghosh born in a Bengali Kayastha family which hailed from Chittagong, now in Bangladesh. In 1922, he took admission in the Bengal Technical Institute in Calcutta. Later, he became a member of the Chittagong Jugantar party.[citation needed] He participated in the Chittagong armoury raid, along with Surya Sen and other revolutionaries on 18 April 1930.[2] He fled from Chittagong and took shelter in Chandannagar, Hooghly. After few days police commissioner Charles Tegart attacked the safe house of them in Chandannagar and arrested him. One young fellow revolutionary Jiban Ghoshal Alias Makhan was killed by the police at time of arrest operation.[1]

After the trial, Ganesh Ghosh was deported to the

Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency
as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate. In the 1971 Lok Sabha he was again the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate from Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency. This time he was defeated by 26-year-old Priya Ranjan Dash Munshi who won his first Lok Sabha election, fighting on the Congress (R) ticket.

References

  1. ^ a b Sangshad Bangali Charitabhidhan, Editor: Anjali Basu, 2nd part, 4th Edition, Sahitya Sangshad, 2019, Kolkata
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