Ram Chandra Dome
Ram Chandra Dome | |
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Member of the Jitendra Choudhury | |
General Secretary, Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born | Chilla village, Birbhum | 8 February 1959
As of 24 Dec, 2022 Source: [1] |
Ram Chandra Dome (
Early political life
Dome's engagement with people's movements began when he joined SFI in the 1970s. He later participated in the youth movement and became central committee member of DYFI. He also took part in peasant movements and joined CPI (M) as a whole-timer in 1977.
Along with his hectic political work, Dome makes sure he takes out time to continue charitable medical practice for the needy and the weaker sections of the society.
He was elected to the
Political career
He continued to represent
Dome has been a member of parliamentary committee for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare during 1990–1991. He also served as a member of parliamentary committee for Ministry of Human Resource Development from 1991 to 2004.
During 1996–1997, he was a member of the estimates committee and committee on MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLAD) from 2006 to 2008.
He was a
He was the Chief Whip of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014. He also served as a member of parliamentary committee for railways from 2009 to 2014.
He has also been the Chairman of Sriniketan Santiniketan Development Authority in Bolpur, West Bengal. He also served as member of the court of Viswa-Bharati University and the governing body of Indian Council of Medical Research.
Dome has been elected to the state committee and was elected as district secretary of the CPI(M) Birbhum district committee in 2012. He was elected to the central committee and the West Bengal state secretariat in 2015.
Dome was elected as the national general secretary of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha, CPI(M)'s frontal organisation for backward castes, in 2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
He was included in the Politburo in 2022 and is the first member belonging to the
He contested from
During 2018 Panchayat elections he was attacked by the Trinamool Congress and was left bloodied and injured while leading a procession with candidates for filing nomination at Nalhati BDO office in Birbhum.
Personal life
Dome has been married to Bandana Dome née Das since 1987. The couple has one daughter. They currently reside in Suri, Birbhum. Along with his hectic political work, Dome makes sure he takes out time to continue charitable medical practice for the needy and the weaker sections of the society.