Suresh Chandra Deb

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(08.05.1894 – ?), a worker in the Bande Mataram office, whose article “Sri Aurobindo as I Knew Him” appeared in Mother India, August 15, 1950.

Ed. at Raja Girish Chandra H. E. School and Murari Chand College, Sylhet; Unmarried; Whole-time Congress worker; Participated in Non-co-operation movement in 1921; Headmaster, National High English School, 1925—29; Member, Assam Congress Composite Parliamentary Board, 1936-37; Member, Provincial Congress Committee for several years; Member, A.I.C.C., 1938-39; Member, Karimganj Debt Conciliation Board; Member, Karimganj Liaison Committee; Secretary and President, Karimganj Congress Committee; Suffered imprisonment five times in Cachar and Sylhet; Pioneer of Youth, Kisan and Labour movements in Surma Valley;General Secretary, Surma Upatyaka Cha Sramik Union, 1947—52. Elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from the Cachar-Lushai Hill constituency Assam in 1952.

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