Kansari Halder
{{Short description|Indian politician (1910–1997)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kansari Halder
| caption =
| birth_date = 28 September 1910
| birth_place = Vill. Andaria, South 24 Parganas (then 24 Parganas)
| residence = P.O. Serakole, South 24-Paraganas
| death_date = 29 August 1997 (aged 86)
| death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India
| constituency1 = Diamond Harbour
| office1 = Member of Parliament
| term1 = 1957–1962
| constituency2 = Mathurapur
| office2 = Member of Parliament
| term2 = 1967–1972
| constituency3 = Sonarpur
| office3 = Member of Legislative Assembly
| term3 = 1972–1977
| predecessor=
| successor =
| party = Communist Party of India
| nationality = Indian
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Kansari Halder (1910–1997) was an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India. He earned fame as a leader of and for his active participation in the Tebhaga movement.
Early life
Born in a Poundra family, the son of Narendra Krishna Halder Jashodarani Haldar, he was born at village Andaria on 26 September 1910. He was educated at Ripon College and Bangabasi College in Kolkata. While still a student he was arrested in 1930 for his participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement. He remained with the Congress till 1941, when he joined the Communist Party of India.{{cite web| url = http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-1089-Halder,%20Shri%20Kansari| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141112075253/http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-1089-Halder,%20Shri%20Kansari| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 12 November 2014|title = Halder, Shri Kansari|publisher= reFocus| access-date = 11 November 2014}}Samsad Bangali Chartibhidhan (Vol 2), Biographical Dictionary by Anjali Bose (in Bengali). {{ISBN|81-86806-99-7}}. Third edition. P. 73. Sahitya Samsad.
Tebhaga movement
Kansari Halder provided leadership to the peasant movement that developed in the 1940s in Kakdwip-Sundarbans area of 24 Parganas and later became well known as the Tebhaga movement. Many people were killed in police-public face-off. Although he was convicted to death sentence in the Chandanpiri case in the Kakdwip area the police could not get him as he had gone underground. In 1957, he was elected to the Lok Sabha while he was still convicted. He was later acquitted.
Electoral performance
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1957 from Diamond Harbour,{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 11 November 2014}} was reelected to the Lok Sabha in 1967 from Mathurapur,{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203524/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }} and was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1972 from Sonarpur.{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 11 November 2014}}
Death
References
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{{First to Tenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
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Category:Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal
Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal
Category:West Bengal MLAs 1972–1977
Category:People from South 24 Parganas district
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