10 Facts About Samar Mukherjee

In 1932, Samar Mukherjee got admitted to the Bowbazaar High School in the 10th Standard, and passed the Matriculation next year.

In 1936, Samar Mukherjee met Bimal Roy, a Communist leader from Rangpur District, who was then under house arrest in Amta.

In 1938, Samar Mukherjee became the President of Howrah District Committee of the AISF.

In 1948, the Indian National Congress government declared CPI as illegal, and Samar Mukherjee was yet again arrested.

Samar Mukherjee was made a candidate in the Assembly Elections, 1957 from the Howrah North, and defeated the sitting Speaker of the Assembly, Shaila Mukherjee.

Samar Mukherjee represented the CPI in the 5th Party Congress of Workers' Party of Korea in November 1970.

Samar Mukherjee joined the International Peace Conference at Paris in 1977, as a part of the Parliamentary delegation.

Samar Mukherjee served as the leader of the CPI group in Lok Sabha between 1977 and 1984.

In 1983, Samar Mukherjee became the General Secretary of the CITU from Kanpur conference, and remained in that post up to 1991.

Samar Mukherjee died on 18 July 2013 at Kolkata, after being admitted to the hospital the day before.