Dipankar Bhattacharya: The revolutionary statistician in Left's Bihar rise

Bhattacharya is the general secretary, or the chief, of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - popularly known simply as Bhakapa Maalay, or just Maalay

Archis Mohan | New Delhi
Last Updated at November 14, 2020 12:01 IST

Dipankar Bhattacharya / General Secretary, Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

Bhattacharya has helped ML to grow on university campuses when other Left parties have struggled to attract talented young people

Dipankar Bhattacharya is seen as one of the most rooted among the top communist leaders in the country, lives out of his party’s offices, and is more likely to explain his political position in accessible Hindi, English or Bengali than utter inscrutable phrases about dialectical materialism.

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