Nibaran Chandra Laskar (15 January 1902 – 25 June 1987) was an Indian politician belonging to the

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 E ...

. He was elected to the

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lower house of the

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from the

Cachar Cachar district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. After independence the undivided Cachar district was split into four districts in Assam: Dima Hasao district (formerly North Cachar Hills), Cachar district alongside ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

in 1952 and 1957. Laskar was also a member of the

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Early life and background

Nibaran Chandra Laskar was born on 15 January 1902. He was a singer, musician, sportsman, social worker, and educationist. He was a gold medalist and double MA in Sanskrit and Bengali from Dhaka University. He was a founder professor of Gurucharan College, the first college of Cachar district in the state of Assam. He was the founder Principle of Cachar college. Laskar moved into full term politics in 1944. In the year 1961, he resigned from active politics following a protest against Assam Assembly's decision to make Assamese the state language of Assam considering the fact Bengali was also a prominent language of the state. 90% of the population of Barak Valley were Bengali speaking. On 13 May 1961 11 protesters were killed by police firing, at a peaceful protest even at Silchar Railway Station. Several MPs and MLAs resigned post that incident and Laskar was one of them. He engaged in social service and philanthropy in later part of his life. He was a Member of Silchar Local Board, Silchar Municipal Board, 1946–49; President of Cachar Kalyan Samiti, 1946–48; General Secretary of Samaj Sanjivani Samiti, Cachar; Member of All India Cottage Industries Board, 1949–52; Member of F.A.O., 1950–52, Deputy Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation, Assam Government, 1951–52; Member of Rehabilitation Finance Administration, 1956–57; Member of Assam Legislative Assembly 1947–52; Member of Constituent Assembly of India, 1947–50; Member of First Lok Sabha, 1952–57; Member of Public Accounts Committee, 1955–57.

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External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
__FORCETOC__ 1902 births 1987 deaths India MPs 1952–1957 India MPs 1957–1962 Indian National Congress politicians Lok Sabha members from Assam Members of the Constituent Assembly of India Indian National Congress politicians from Assam {{Assam-INC-politician-stub