Education
University of Calcutta.
University of Calcutta.
He was the joint opposition candidate for Indian presidential election, 1974. He had participated in Goa Liberation Movement. He was one of the founders of the RSP. He passed his Bachelor examination in 1933 and subsequently Master of Arts in economics from the University of Calcutta as an external candidate from jail, when he was imprisoned for sedition against the colonial rule.
The Election Commission of India held indirect 6th presidential elections of India on 17 August 1974.
He was a leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Baharampur in West Bengal in India. He was member of Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1984 and a member of Rajya Sabha from 1987 to 1997 until his death.