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Somnath Lahiri was born on 1 September, 1909 in India, is an Indian writer and politician (1901-1984). Discover Somnath Lahiri's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Political Activist and Writer
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 1 September 1909
Birthday 1 September
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Date of death 19 October, 1984
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Nationality India

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1909

Somnath Lahiri (1 September 1909 – 19 October 1984) was an Indian statesman, writer and a leader of Communist Party of India.

He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India from Bengal.

1930

Lahiri became attracted to Marxism under the guidance of Bengali revolutionary Bhupendranath Datta in 1930.

Initially, he worked in E.B. Railway workers' union and played an important role with Dr. Ronen Sen and Abdul Halim in building the Communist party's Calcutta Committee.

1931

Lahiri joined the Communist party in 1931, and started working in rail and tram workers Union in Kolkata.

In 1931 he translated the book The State and Revolution to Bengali.

Samyobad (Socialism) is another book of his.

He was the editor of Swadhinata, a daily left political magazine.

1933

In 1933, he organized the first labour association of Tata Iron & Steel in Jamshedpur.

1935

He was also elected as an interim general secretary of the CPI in 1935 following the arrest of S. S. Mirajkar.

However, Lahiri himself was arrested a few months later and was replaced by P. C. Joshi.

1938

According to the party's resolution of 1938, he became attached with Muzaffar Ahmed and Bankim Mukherjee and joined the Left consolidation committee.

1943

Lahiri was elected to the CPI central committee during the first party congress in the 1943 and the second party congress in 1948.

1944

He also led the historical Sweeper strike of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1944.

Lahiri has moved base to Bengal and started working in the state.

He was elected CPI councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation along with Muhammad Ismail from the Labour Constituency in 1944.

1946

Lahiri was the sole Communist member in the Constituent Assembly in 1946 elected from Bengal.

He also substantially contributed to the debates regarding drafting of the Constitution of India.

On the issue of right to privacy, Lahiri took a progressive view.

1947

On 30 April 1947, Lahiri proposed to make the right to privacy of correspondence a fundament right.

However, his proposal did not receive any traction.

Somnath Lahiri had said in CAD, Vol III, p. 404.

that -

"I feel that many of these fundamental rights have been framed from the point of view of a police Constable… you will find that very minimum rights have been conceded and are almost invariably followed by a proviso. Almost every article is followed by a proviso which takes away the right almost completely,..What should be our conception of fundamental rights ?....We want to incorporate every one of those rights which our people want to get."

1950

However, he was later isolated in the party and was removed from the central committee, following the removal of B. T. Ranadive in June 1950 as the party denounced the BTR line which called for violent overthrow of the government.

1951

The party criticised the line as "left adventurism" and elected a new central committee in 1951.

1957

He was later elected as a Member of West Bengal Legislative assembly from 1957 to 1977 and also served as a minister between 1967 and 1970.

Later he was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly six-times between 1957 and 1977.

He was elected from the Alipore in 1957 and 1962.

After the party split in between CPI and Communist Party of India (Marxist), he remained with the CPI.

1967

In 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, he moved to Dhakuria.

In the 1967 elections, with CPI and CPI(M) fighting against each other, Lahiri came out victorious in a triangular contest.

Subsequently, he became a minister in the two United Front Governments.

He held the position of cabinet minister in charge of information and culture for West Bengal in 1967.

He also wrote many articles in Ganashakti, Aage Cholo, Kalanatar. Kalijuger golpo. The short stories collection of Somnath Lahiri was first published in 1967.

He brought out the first Bangla and Hindi journals, Abhijan and Jangi Mazdur, of and for the working class.

1969

He continued to represent Dhakuria in the assembly in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

In 1969, he became the minister for local self-government and public works.

1977

He did not contest the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

Somnath Lahiri was a well known political intellectual and writer.