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Datta Samant

Dattatray Samant (21 November 1932 – 16 January 1997), also known as Datta Samant, and popularly referred to as Doctorsaheb, was an Indian politician and trade union leader, who is noted for leading 200–300 thousand textile mill workers in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) in the year-long Great Bombay textile strike in 1982, which triggered the closure of most of the textile mills in the city.Trade union and political careerSamant grew up in Deobag on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, hailing from a middle-class Marathi background.

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