Trilochan Mal
Trilochan Mal was an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI). He was a school teacher by profession. Mal was active in the peasants front of RCPI in Birbhum District.[https://books.google.at/books?id=VFm4AAAAIAAJ Who's who in 1982 Assembly Election, West Bengal: Personalities and Party Manifesto]. Merchants' Club, 1982. p. ix He was a leading figure of the 1959 food movement in Rampurhat.Suranjan Das, Premansukumar Bandyopadhyay. [https://books.google.at/books?id=bYPaAAAAMAAJ Food Movement of 1959: Documenting a Turning Point in the History of West Bengal]. K.P. Bagchi & Company, 2004. p. 170 Mal was imprisoned multiple times.
Mal contested the Murarai seat, standing as an independent, in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He finished in fourth place wit 2,654 votes (13.03%).Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203741/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1952 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL] In the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election he contested the seat reserved for Scheduled Castes in the Nalhati two-member constituency, again standing as an independent. He obtained 5,132 votes, the third largest vote count among the Scheduled Caste seat candidates.Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140404201835/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL] In the 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election he stood as an independent in Nalhati, finishing in third place with 5,212 votes (22.48%).Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193601/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]
Mal won the Hansan seat in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, standing as an RCPI candidate and obtaining 9,181 votes (44.20%).Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140718182727/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1971 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL] He subsequently lost the seat in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 12,542 votes (42.01%).Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140404195120/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1972 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL] Mal was elected to the assembly from Hansan in the 1977 elections (14,883 votes, 39.60%) and the 1982 election (34,663 votes, 53.10%).Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203744/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]Election Commission of India. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140404201749/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1982 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL] Mal died during the 1982-1987 legislative term. In 1985 a by-election was held for the Hansan seat, won by RCPI candidate Umakanta Roy.{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee|title=Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNeNAAAAMAAJ|publisher=The Committee|page=645}}Election Commission of India. [http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Bye-election results 1952-95]