Party Name : Communist Party of India
Constituency : Midnapore
State : West Bengal
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 11 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Shri Satish Chandra Gupta
Mother's Name :
Date of birth : 18 Mar 1919
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
1960 Elected to 2nd Lok Sabha1962 Re-elected to 3rd Lok Sabha (2nd term)1967 Re-elected to 4th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1971 Re-elected to 5th Lok Sabha (4th term)1980 Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (5th term)1980-90 General-Secretary, All India Trade Union Congress (A.I.T.U.C.)1982 onwards Vice-President, W.F.T.U.1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (6th term)1985-89 Member, General Purposes Committee1986-87 Member, Committee on PetitionsMember, Business Advisory Committee1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (7th term)Member, Business Advisory Committee1990 Member, Committee to Review Lok Sabha Secretariat Rules, 19551990-91 Member, Library CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs1990-96 General-Secretary, Communist Party of India (C.P.I.)1990-91 Member, Rules CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee Constituted under the Punjab State Legislative (Delegation of Powers) Act, 19871991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (8th term)Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence1995-96 Chairman, Committee on Defence1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (9th term)1996-98 Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (10th term)1998-99 Member, Committee on Defence and its Sub-Committee-IMember, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of DefenceChairman, Committee on State Funding of Elections, West BengalPresident, W.F.T.U.1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (11th term)1999-2000 Leader, C.P.I. Parliamentary Party, Lok SabhaChairman, Committee on Subordinate LegislationMember, Committee on DefenceMember, General Purposes Committee
More Information :
Books Published
(i) Capital and Labour in the Jute Industry; and (ii) Self-Reliance in National Defence
Special Interests
Economic affairs, foreign affairs and defence
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading, games, sports and walking
Countries Visited
Widely travelled; Member, (i) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to I.P.U. Conference, London 1975; (ii) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to I.P.U. Conference, Madrid, 1976; and (iii) Prime Minister`s Delegation, Namibia, 1990
Other Information
Went underground for one-and-a-half years during 1948-50; suffered imprisonment in 1953,1959 and 1969; Conferred `Outstanding Parliamentarian` Award, 1992; President of Several Trade Union Organisations; Member, Council of Indian Institute of Technology, 1990
