Samar Mukherjee

Samar Mukherjee (Bengali: সমর মুখোপাধ্যায়) (7 November 1913 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who served as member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms from 1971 to 1984, and as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 till 1993. A lifelong bachelor, he made a multidimensional contribution as Party organizer, as writer, as trade unionist and as a Parliamentarian. He was a member of the Polit Bureau from 1978 to 1992, member of the Central Committee since 1966, and the eldest party member during his death in 2013. He also served as the General Secretary of the CITU from 1983 to 1991. A biography, along with some of the essays of Mukherjee titled 100 Years of Samar Mukherjee: A Tribute was released in Bengali and English on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Samar Mukherjee who lived a hundred years, having born exactly four years before October Revolution and lived beyond the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A bachelor living althrough in Dilkusha Street Party Commune in South Kolkata was a perfectionist. He dedicated his entire life for the cause of the Working Class and People as a whole and chose Marxism as the Theory that guided him in his entire practice. He led a frugal life, donating back the savings from his meagre party wage. Samar was not only a parliamentarian during the tumultous period in Indian History like the period of Emergency, semi-fascist terror in Bengal and the Golden period from 1977 when the Left Front established its Governnance of West Bengal.