Prafulla Chandra Sen
| প্রফুল্লচন্দ্র সেন | |
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Prafulla Chandra Sen
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| 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
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In office 8 July 1962 – 15 March 1967 |
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| Preceded by | President's Rule |
| Succeeded by | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee |
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| Born | 10 April 1897 |
| Died | 25 September 1990 (aged 93) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Prafulla Chandra Sen (Bengali: প্রফুল্লচন্দ্র সেন, জন্ম 10 April 1897 – 25 September 1990) was a Bengali Indian politician and freedom fighter. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal during the period 1961–1967.
Bengali Indian politician and freedom fighter, Prafulla Chandra Sen was born on 10 April 1897 in Khulna District, Bengal. Most if his childhood was in Bihar, Eastern India. He started his education in Bihar and passed the entrance exam from the R. Mitra Institute in Deoghar. He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree from Scottish Church College, Calcutta. On graduation, he joined an Accounting Firm and aspired to move to England in order to become an Articled Clerk. His ambitions were irrevocably altered on hearing Mahatma Gandhi's soul-stirring speech at the Calcutta session of the Congress Party in 1920.
Sen was extremely influenced by Gandhi's speech and abandoned all plans of studying abroad and rallied to the Mahatma's nationwide call for a mass non-co-operation movement against the British. In 1923, Sen shifted to the remote area of Arambagh in the Hooghly district, which became his laboratory for Gandhian experiments on Swadeshi and Satyagraha.
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 Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of grass-root democracy and a self-reliant rural economy. So pervasive was Gandhi's influence on Sen, 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 upliftment. For his efforts, Sen earned the sobriquet Gandhi of Arambagh. he was thought to have been encouraged by the then president of the union board and the noted academic (headmaster of Arambagh High School) Nagendranath Chatterjee whom interestingly he defeated in a poll,but they never lost mutual admiration and it is reported that sen offered a pranam to chatterjee every time they met long after he was a national figure.
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