Mrinal Das (14 January 1948) is an Indian
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
ist.
Mrinal Das was elected general secretary of the
Bengal Provincial Students Federation in 1970. He also became a member of the all India secretariat of the
Students Federation of India
The Students' Federation of India (abbreviated as SFI) is an Indian left-wing student organisation politically aligned to the ideologies of Independence, Democracy and Socialism. Currently, V. P. Sanu and Mayukh Biswas are elected as the All I ...
. Later Das became involved in trade union activism. In 1986 he was elected as one of the secretaries of the
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
State Committee of the
Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Centre of Indian Trade Unions, CITU is a National level Trade Union in India and its trade union wing is a spearhead of the Indian Trade Union Movement. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assemblies of workers and classe ...
(CITU). He was also included in the national working committee of CITU, posts he would hold until recently. Das was known as a leader of the hardline tendency in CITU.
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Berth to appease Citu
' He was a member of the West Bengal State Committee of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...
for a time.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal
Trade unionists from West Bengal
1948 births
Living people