Tridib Chaudhuri
Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 1987–1997 | |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1952–1984 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Atish Chandra Sinha |
| Constituency | Baharampur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 December 1911 |
| Died | 21 December 1997 (aged 86) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Party | Revolutionary Socialist Party |
As of 17 September, 2006 Source: [1] | |
Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri (13 December 1911 – 21 December 1997) was an Indian independence activist and politician. He was a leader and founder of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Baharampur in West Bengal.
Chaudhuri was born to a middle-class zamindari family with roots in Haripur, Pabna District. He passed his BA examination in 1933 and subsequently MA in economics from the University of Calcutta as an external candidate from jail, when he was imprisoned for sedition against the colonial rule.
He was the joint opposition candidate for the 1974 Indian presidential election and became the first Bengali to participate in the presidential election in India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1984 and Rajya Sabha from 1987 until his death in 1997. He had participated in Goa Liberation Movement. He was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.