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Born on March 1, 1944 at Kolkata
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Passed out from Sailendra Sarkar Vidyalaya, Kolkata and B.A. Hons in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata
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Joined Party in 1966
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Secretary West Bengal State Committee of Democratic Youth Federation – June 1968
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Member, West Bengal State Committee, CPI(M) – 1971, Member Secretariat 1982
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Permanent Invitee to Central Committee – 1984
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Member Central Committee in 1985; Member Polit Bureau – 2000
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Minister West Bengal Cabinet as Minister of Information and Public Relations – 1977; minister of Information and Cultural Affairs etc. 1987; Minister of Home-- 1996; Deputy Chief Minister – 1999; Chief Minister – 2000
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Was an important functionary of the Vietnam Solidarity Committee in the late sixties.
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Translated famous poem of Le Duc Tho composed in 1975, just after the liberation of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City); visited Vietnam on the occasion of the birth centenary of Ho Chi Minh; visited China in 1982 as companion of Promode Dasgupta.
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Married, one daughter.
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Currently member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) and Chief Minister, West Bengal
