Benoy Krishna Konar

Background

Benoy Krishna was born in 1930 in an affluent family of farmers in Memari in Bardhaman district.

Career

He was younger brother of Hare Krishna Konar,"who pioneered the land reforms movement in Bengal."

He joined the undivided Communist Party of India in 1948. He was a leading figure in the militant peasants" movement in West Bengal during the 1960s and early 1970s, He was the president of the West Bengal and central units of the All India Kisan Sabha, the peasants’ front organisation of the Consumer price index(M). He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Memari (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 1969, 1971 and 1977.

He died at Kolkata on 14 September 2014 after a prolonged illness.

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