Shyamal Chakraborty was an Indian politician and trade unionist, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2008 to 2014 from West Bengal.
18 Facts About Shyamal Chakraborty
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Shyamal Chakraborty was a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly and a minister in the government of West Bengal.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was born in Shivpur village in Khulna district in present day Bangladesh.
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Shyamal Chakraborty did his schooling in Baidyanath Institution in Dumdum and graduated from Dumdum Motijheel College and Vidyasagar College.
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Shyamal Chakraborty became a member of undivided Communist Party of India in 1960 and joined the Communist Party of India after the split in 1964.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was a leading organisor in students' movements in West Bengal, particularly in Kolkata.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was the President of the Students' Federation of India West Bengal State Committee from 1973 to 1979 and All India Joint Secretary.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was jailed for a period of a year and stayed underground for six months.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1981 in a byelection from Maniktala.
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Shyamal Chakraborty remained a member till 1996, when he lost.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was elected to the state Committee of the Party in 1978 and the Central Committee in 2002.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was the Transport Minister of West Bengal from 1982 to 1996.
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Shyamal Chakraborty led the West Bengal Centre of Indian Trade Unions as its state president for around two decades.
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Com Shyamal Chakraborty was elected in the national secretariat of CITU in 1991 and was in that position as vice president till the 2017, and got voluntarily relieved from that position in the 16th conference of CITU held in 2020.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2008 and served till 2014 from West Bengal.
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Shyamal Chakraborty was married to Shipra Bhoumick on 25 June, 1971.
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However, Shipra passed away a few years later and Shyamal Chakraborty raised Ushashi as a single-father.
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Shyamal Chakraborty died on 6 August 2020, at age 76, from cardiac arrest after being diagnosed with COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.