Bhupesh Gupta

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Bhupesh Gupta
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1952–1981
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Personal details
Born(1914-10-20)20 October 1914
Itna, Mymensingh District, Bengal Province, British India
(now in Bangladesh)
Died6 August 1981(1981-08-06) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
(now Moscow, Russia)
OccupationParliamentarian

Bhupesh Gupta (Bengali: ভূপেশ গুপ্ত) (20 October 1914 – 6 August 1981) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India.

Early life

He was born at Itna, in the erstwhile Mymensingh District of Bengal Province in British India. He studied at the renowned Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta.[1][need quotation to verify]

Bhupesh Gupta joined Bengal revolutionaries in his school days.

Later life

He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for five terms from West Bengal, from 3 April 1952 till his death. He was reelected in 1958, 1964, 1970 and 1976. He was a skilled parliamentarian. He died in Moscow on 6 August 1981.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Datta 2008, p. 592

Sources

  • Datta, Asit, ed. (2008), "Some Alumni of Scottish Church College", 175th Year Commemoration Volume, Kolkata, India: Scottish Church College, OCLC 243677369