Prakash Chandra Das

Prakash Chandra Das ( born: November 27, 1958) is a politician of Bharatiya Janata Party from the state of Tripura, India. He is a former Minister in the INC TUJS coalition government that governed the state of Tripura between 1988 and 1993. He contested as an Indian National Congress candidate from the Bamutia(SC) constituency six times consecutively from 1988 to 2013 winning thrice, in 1988, 1998 and 2003.^[1] He also contested as an AITC candidate from 4-Barjala assembly constituency by-election held on 19 November 2016 where he lost to the ruling party. He was the Chairman of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee SC Department from 2004 till he resigned from his post and joined All India Trinamool Congress in June, 2016 and was appointed Vice-President of the Tripura state unit of All India Trinamool Congress. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 24 April 2017 due to negligience on the part of trinamool central leaders towards tripura unit of the party and also due to the strong wave in favour of BJP in the state. He was the Chairman of Public Accounts Committee, Tripura Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2008. He also was the Chief Whip of CLP in the Tripura Legislative Assembly from 1998-2003.

^{Early Life}

He was born on 27 November 1958. He did his graduation of Bachelor of Arts in History from Maharaja Bir Bikram College, then under the University of Calcutta.

^{Political Activities}

He got involved in politics at a young age through National Students' Union of India in student politics. Gradually he joined Indian Youth Congress where he was the Vice-President of the state unit for a long time. He contested as an Indian National Congress candidate in the 1988 assembly elections from 3-Bamutia assembly constituency where he defeated the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate and was also a minister in the INC-TUJS alliance that governed the state from 1988-1993. He won again from the same constituency in 1998 and again in 2003. He held posts of block youth congress president, nsui state general secretary, Vice-President of pradesh youth congress, Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary, member of All India Congress Committee. He was also the chairman of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee SC Department from 2004 till he resigned from the party and joined All India Trinamool Congress in June, 2016 in protest against the alliance of congress with communist parties in West Bengal. He was declared as the Vice-President of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress on December, 2016. He quit trinamool and joined BJP on April, 2017 due to neglect of the trinamool state unit by central leaders and to strengthen the strong anti-communist and anti-incumbency sentiment prevailing in the state against the communist government, which is completely in favour of the BJP. He was inducted as a member of the state executive committee of Tripura Pradesh BJP on May,2017. He is one of the most prominent Schedule Caste leader in the state of Tripura with mass followers among the community. He is known for being a clean and honest politician with people across political parties respecting him for his honesty and sincerity. He is very active against the communist government that is ruling the state of Tripura since 1993.

^{Other Activities}

He is very active in matters related to upliftment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and in bringing equality to them and economically empowering them. He is the President of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Smriti Jan Kalyan Sanstha, a Non-governmental organization working to economically assist and empower the weaker sections of the society in various parts of Tripura.

References