Английская Википедия:Gaurishankar Bhattacharyya
Gaurishankar Bhattacharyya (10 December 1915 - 23 June 2002 [1] - ?) was an Assamese freedom fighter, social activist, litterateur and politician, who served as the Leader of Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly.[2]
Early life and education
Bhattacharya was born in Samarkuchi village of Nalbari district to Souridutta Bhattacharyya, a Sanskrit Pandit.[1] He did his undergraduate from Cotton College, and earned a M. A. in history from Presidency College, Kolkata.[1]
Political career
Bhattacharya was active in politics since his student days;[1] in 1939, he was elected as the president of the All Assam Students Federation.[3]
In 1952, Bhattacharya won election to the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Guwahati constituency for the Communist Party of India (CPI) defeating Rajabala Das of the Indian National Congress (INC).[3]Шаблон:Efn He was the only legislator from CPI in the House. In 1957, he defended the seat, defeating Lakshmidhar Borah of the INC.Шаблон:Efn However, five years later in 1962, Bhattacharya suffered defeat at the hands of Debendra Nath Sharma, the INC candidate.Шаблон:Efn Months afterward, during the Sino-Indian War, Bhattacharya was subject to preventive detention by the Congress government for his activism; he would leave CPI, shortly.[4]
In the 1967 elections, Bhattacharya stood as an independent candidate from the newly delimited Borbhag constituency and eked out a comfortable win over Pabindra Nath Sarma of the INC.Шаблон:Efn Two years later, Bhattacharya collaborated with Renuka Devi Barkataki, a Congress renegade, to launch the Peoples Democratic Party of Assam (PDPA);Шаблон:Efn it would be the first regional party to contest the assembly elections.[1][5][6] Five years later, Bhattacharya stood as an independent candidate from Borbhag again, and won against Sarma.Шаблон:Efn Bhattacharya became the leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly. The Peoples democratic Party (PDPA) later merged with Janata Party in 1977.[7]
Literature
Bhattacharya moved away from politics in his later life, devoting time to literature; in 1999, he was conferred with the national Sahitya Academy Award (Anubad Suchi Samman) by the Sahitya Akademi for translating B.R. Aggarwalla's Trials of Independence into Assamese.[8]
Personal life
Bhattacharya married Tarulata Bhattacharya; they had three sons — Dibya Shankar Bhattacharya who is a senior Indian Army officer, Dhruba Shankar Bhattacharya (now deceased) and Siddhartha Bhattacharya —, and a daughter — Suprabha Bhattacharya.[9][10] Siddhartha Bhattacharya is a legislator from the Bharatiya Janata Party; Suprabha Bhattacharya's only son is Arnab Goswami, an Indian right-wing news anchor and editor-in-Chief of Republic TV.[1]
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