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((Short description|Indian politician (1897–1990)))
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| name                = Prafulla Chandra Sen
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| birth_place         = [[Senhati Union|Senhati]], [[Dighalia Upazila|Dighalia]], [[Khulna district|Khulna]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[India]]
| residence           = 
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| death_place         = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| constituency        = 
| order1               = 2nd
| office1             = Chief Minister of West Bengal
| term_start1          = 2 July 1962
| term_end1            = 28 February 1967
| governor1            = [[Padmaja Naidu]]
| predecessor1         = [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| successor1           = [[Ajoy Mukherjee]]
| party               = [[Janata Party]]
| otherparty         = [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Indian National Congress(O)]]<br> [[Indian National Congress]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Calcutta]]
| occupation          = [[Politician]], [[Freedom fighter]]
| office2             = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| term_start2         = 1977
| term_end2           = 1980
| constituency2       = [[Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency|Arambagh]]
| predecessor2        = [[Manoranjan Hazra]]
| successor2          = [[Bijoy Krishna Modak]]
| office3            = [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3         = 1957
| term_end3           = 1962
| constituency3       = [[Khanakul Assembly constituency|Khanakul]]
| predecessor3        = ''Constituency created''
| successor3          = Krishna Pada Pandit
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| predecessor5        = [[Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee]]
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'''Prafulla Chandra Sen''' (10 April 1897 – 25 September 1990) was an Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was the [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] from 1962 to 1967.<ref>With West Bengal Chief Ministers: Memoirs, 1962 to 1977 by Saroj Chakrabarti</ref><ref>((cite book|last=Sengupta|first=Subodhchandra |title=Sansad Bangali charitabhidhan|script-title=bn:সংসদ বাঙ্গালি চরিতাভিধান|editor=অঞ্জলি বসু |publisher=Sahitya Samsad (সাহিত্য সংসদ)|location=Kolkata|year=2002|edition=4th|volume=II|page=190|isbn=81-85626-65-0|language=Bengali))</ref>

==Background==
Prafulla Chandra Sen was born in the village Senhati in the [[Khulna]] District of Bengal on 10 April 1897 in a [[Vaidya (caste)|Baidya]]<ref>((Cite web|last=Dutta-Ray|first=Sunanda K|author-link=Sunanda K. Datta-Ray|date=2016-06-04|title=WB Polls: Mamata's triumph, a victory of class over caste|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/wb-polls-mamatas-triumph-a-victory-of-class-over-caste-sunanda-k-datta-ray|access-date=2021-05-26|website=Free Press Journal|language=en|type=News Paper))</ref> family. Most of his childhood was spent in [[Bihar]], Eastern India. He started his education in Bihar and passed the entrance exam to attend the R. Mitra Institute in [[Deoghar]]. He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree from [[Scottish Church College]] in [[Calcutta]]. After graduating, he joined an accounting firm and aspired to move to England in order to become an articled clerk. His ambitions changed upon hearing [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s speech at the Calcutta session of the Congress Party in 1920.

Influenced by Gandhi's speech, Sen abandoned his plans of studying abroad and rallied to Gandhi's call for a mass [[non-cooperation movement]] against the British. In 1923, Sen shifted to the area of [[Arambagh]] in the [[Hooghly District|Hooghly]] district, which became his laboratory for Gandhian experiments on [[Swadeshi]] and [[Satyagraha]].<ref>"Mamata Remembers Former CM of Bengal Prafulla Chandra Sen on His Birth Anniversary." United News of India, 10 Apr. 2017, www.uniindia.com/mamata-remembers-former-cm-of-bengal-prafulla-chandra-sen-on-his-birth-anniversary/other/news/837206.html.</ref>

==Political career==
===During the Raj===
Sen plunged headlong into the freedom struggle. He was one of the staunchest supporters of the [[Indian National Congress]] Party and led the freedom struggle against the British. He was a die-hard nationalist and was committed to Gandhi's philosophy of grass-roots democracy and a self-reliant rural economy. Gandhi's influence on Sen was so pervasive that, in the 1920s, he shifted his area of social and political activity to Arambagh, an under-developed and [[malaria]]-infested area of West Bengal and worked ceaselessly for its betterment. For his efforts, Sen earned the sobriquet ''Gandhi of Arambagh''. He was thought to have been encouraged by the then president of the union and the noted academic (headmaster of [[Arambagh High School]]) [[Nagendranath Chatterjee]], whom he defeated in a poll, but they never lost mutual admiration. It is reported that Sen offered a [[Pranāma|pranam]] to Chatterjee every time they met, long after he became a national figure.

Sen threw himself into the freedom struggle and spent over 10 years in various jails between 1930 and 1942 for anti-British activities. During that time period, the Congress Party office at [[Serampore]] was his home and he earned virtually nothing, simply possessing one home-spun [[dhoti]] (sarong) and [[kurta]]. In the partial exercise of democracy permitted by the British in the 1940s, Sen was elected to the Bengal Assembly from Arambagh in 1944 and was deputy leader of the Opposition.

===After Independence===
In 1948, he was inducted by then Chief Minister Dr. [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] into the West Bengal Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture. This was a portfolio he held until 1967. He also functioned as Roy's Deputy Minister and was acknowledged as his political heir.

After Roy's death in 1962, Sen became West Bengal's third Chief Minister. Three years later, his regime faced a drastic food shortage in the state following a countrywide drought. At a Food Ministers' conference in Delhi, Sen advocated introducing the politically unsound measure of food rationing in urban areas. Within months, he had introduced food-grain rationing in the state, a system which has continued with minor modifications to this date.<ref>"Mamata Remembers Former CM of Bengal Prafulla Chandra Sen on His Birth Anniversary." United News of India, 10 Apr. 2017, www.uniindia.com/mamata-remembers-former-cm-of-bengal-prafulla-chandra-sen-on-his-birth-anniversary/other/news/837206.html.</ref>

To build food stocks, he imposed a heavy levy on rice mills. In the process, he alienated the business community. Shortages of essentials led to anti-Congress Party strikes. This was followed by violence and police excesses which further isolated Sen's government. In 1967, the Congress lost the West Bengal election to the Marxists with Sen losing his Arambagh seat in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] as well.

After this setback, Sen, although re-elected to the West Bengal Assembly, never recovered high political office. In the 1980s he fruitlessly espoused the cause of partyless democracy and, although he had left the Congress (I), having little sympathy for its leaders, came around to publicly supporting the party at public forums.

==Political legacy==
Sen was strongly opposed to [[Marxism|Marxists]]. His own brother [[Manindra Nath Sengupta]] was an [[Communist Party of India|Undivided Communist Party]] leader from South Kolkata. The brothers were very ideologically different from each other., but they both dedicated their lives towards the development of poor people of India. Even during the period of Sengupta's serious life-threatening illness, his family requested Sen to provide some free healthcare facility in government hospitals to save Sengupta's life, as his family did not have money for a health check-up. Sengupta was himself a renowned homeopath at that point in time. He also distributed all his earnings to the poor and offered health care for free to the poor and needy people of Kolkata. No special favors were offered by Sen but only a written letter for an ordinary general free bed in MLA quota if vacant with the medical college in Kolkata was provided to Sengupta's family. When the above came to Sengupta's knowledge, he refused to take admission to medical college for any treatment.

Sen helped to transform the Congress Party in Bengal from an anti-imperialist unit into one capable of winning elections and offering capable governance. When the [[Indian National Congress]] was split in the 1969 by the then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]], its more powerful faction took the name of its benefactor and was called the [[Congress (I)]], whilst the less powerful faction, the one that Sen joined, was called the [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Congress (O)]].

By the 1980s the latter had virtually disappeared. Although disillusioned with the state of the Congress (I) Party, he remained an optimist to the end. One of his last acts, a fortnight before he died, was to participate, sitting in a wheelchair, in a Congress (I)-sponsored march in Calcutta to protest against the state's [[Left Front (West Bengal)|CPI(M)-led government]].

In 1967, he was defeated at Arambagh by another Gandhian, [[Ajoy Mukherjee]], who became Chief Minister of West Bengal. The architect of Ajoy Mukherjee's victory at Arambagh was Narayan Ch Ghosh, the then student leader. Attending Sen's birth centenary, Ghosh (then a professor) said, 'We have to learn from Prafulla Chandra Sen's life. How a man of Senhati became the Gandhi of Arambagh is really amazing. Sens' conviction toward the society is a lesson for all of us..."

To his last, he remained a bachelor with an undemanding lifestyle. He passionately championed the upliftment of village industry including home-spun cloth or khadi. For most of his later life, Sen wore only khadi and a week before he died, sold khadi from a newly opened shop to inaugurate its sale.

He died in Calcutta on 25 September 1990.

According to ''[[The Independent]]'' dated 28 September 1990, Sen was "a fiery freedom fighter from Bengal state in Eastern India and later the state's Chief Minister practiced a selfless and principled brand of politics long forgotten in India today".

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==References==
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*Obituary in ''The Independent'' (London) dated 28 September 1990.

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