Anil Biswas (politician)

Anil Biswas ( called Keru, Bengali: অনিল বিশ্বাস, Anil Biśbās; born March 1, 1944 in a village in the district of Nadia in Karimpur, † March 26, 2006 in Kolkata ) was an Indian politician.

He has been active since 1962 in the student movement in 1965 and imprisoned for 11 months. In the same year he joined the Communist Party of India ( Marxist) (CPI (M)) in. 1966 acquired Biswas his master's degree in political science at the Calcutta University. Since 1969 he was a professional party member and a journalist at the party organ Ganashakti. During the state of emergency under Indira Gandhi in the years 1975/76 he worked in the underground.

In 1978 Anil Biswas member of the State Committee of the CPI ( M) from West Bengal (West Bengal State Committee) and worked for Chief Minister Jyoti Basu at the State Secretariat since 1982. Member of the Central Committee of his party, he was in 1983. Between 1983 and 1998 he also served as editor of the Communist Party organ Ganashakti.

Biswas was elected to the politburo of the CPI ( M) in 1998 and took over the office of the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of his party, which he held until his death. Biswas was considered one of the main strategists of his party and has published several writings, especially on international issues. He took part in trips abroad to Russia, China, North Korea, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and the United States participate.

Biswas died of a stroke he suffered on 18 March 2006.