Kripa Shankar Chatterjee is an Indian politician based in the states of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

. He was elected to the

Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the Bihar Legislature where the first elections were held in 1952. The total strength of membership in the Assembly was 331, including one nominated m ...

as an Independent in the year 1977. Thereafter he was re-elected as an Independent to the

in the year 1980. In the year 1985 he was elected MLA on an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

Ticket. K.S.Chatterjee was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly twice as an Independent candidate. He joined the

and won in 1985 on a Congress ticket. He is a prominent Trade Union Leader in the

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur. It ranks as the 42nd largest city in India and is the 33rd largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India. Dhanbad shares its land borders with Pa ...

region and is the President of Bihar Pradesh Colliery Mazdoor Congress Chatterjee was among the first leaders to be detained under the National Security Act in 1980–1981. Ever since its inception the National Security Act has been widely abused by governmental authorities in order to detain trade union leaders, human rights activists, political opponents, underprivileged castes, and ordinary criminal suspects for long periods of time without the minimal safeguards that the Indian Constitution and international law demand. AK. Roy, MP and KS. Chatterjee, MLA and trade union leaders of

Marxist Coordination Committee The Marxist Co-ordination Committee (MCC, hi, मार्क्सवादी समन्वय समिति, abbreviated मासस 'maasas') is a political party in Jharkhand, India. MCC is based in the coal mining region of Dhanbad. ...

from

were arrested and later released.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Bihar MLAs 1977–1980 Indian National Congress politicians Bihar MLAs 1980–1985 Bihar MLAs 1985–1990 Marxist Co-ordination Committee politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar {{Bihar-INC-politician-stub