16 Facts About Biman Bose

Biman Bose was later succeeded by his trusted aide, Surya Kanta Mishra, although he remained a Politburo member of the party.

Biman Bose is Chairman of the Left Front committee of West Bengal.

Biman Bose was an alumnus of Maulana Azad College, under the University of Calcutta.

Biman Bose participated in an election campaign during an assembly by-election in 1954, while he was still in school.

Biman Bose participated in the movement against Bengal-Bihar merger in 1956 as well as the food movement in 1959, and was imprisoned in 1958.

Biman Bose was elected Secretary of the Bengal Provincial Students' Federation, Kolkata district, and vice-president of the BPSF in 1964.

Biman Bose carried on his work as the Assistant Secretary of Indo-Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the mid-1960s.

Biman Bose was the first All India Secretary of Students Federation of India in 1970.

Biman Bose became a member of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India in 1971 and a Secretariat member in 1978.

Biman Bose was made a permanent invitee to the CPI Central Committee in 1983 and was elected as a regular member of the in 1985.

Biman Bose then selected Basudeb Acharia to contest from Bankura upon instructions from Dasgupta.

Biman Bose was elected as a member of the Politburo in 1998.

Biman Bose played a key role in building and organizing the party in several parts of West Bengal, especially undivided Medinipur, Bankura and Puruliya districts.

Biman Bose was elected as the Chairman of Left Front in 1998, after Sailen Dasgupta was relieved of the post due to health issues.

Biman Bose was elected as state Secretary of CPI in March 2005 after Anil Biswas died suddenly.

Biman Bose served in the position until 2015 when Surjya Kanta Mishra succeeded him.