Nirupam Sen, one of the most important leaders of the Left movement in the state, was born on October 8, 1946. He spent his childhood in Gobindpur area of Burdwan district. His father Bhujangabhushan Sen taught there in Raipur High School. Nirupam Sen passed his school leaving examination in this school. In 1961, he was admitted to the Faculty of Science, Burdwan Raj College. During this time he joined the student movement and quickly became a popular student leader.
He joined the Communist Party when he was a student. His entry was proposed by CPI(M) leader Madan Ghosh and seconded by Sushil Bhattacharya. In 1966, he was elected as the Secretary of the Students' Association in the Burdwang district. At the same time, he graduated from Burdwan Raj College with a degree in Science and then a Bachelor of Arts. As an apprentice, he taught for a while in the early years. First at CMS High School in Burdwan and then Tikarhat High Madrasa. In 1968, he became a full-time employee of the party.
In April of the same year, the Central Plenary Session of the Communist Party of Malaysia on ideological issues was held in Burdwan. Nirupam Sen volunteered at the Burdwan building and members of the Politburo spent the night in the plenary session. At that time, party general secretary P Sundarayah and other members of the Politburo were sleeping on tables in the restaurant.
Nirupam Sen and other volunteers sleep outside on the balcony. In 1968, Nirupam was elected as a district committee member of the CMM in the 10th Burdwan district meeting at Nadanghat. Later in 1989, Nirupam Sen was inducted as Burdwan District Secretary when Rabinsen was transferred from the post of Burdwan District Secretary to the Party State Secretariat. From then until 1995, he performed this duty. In the undivided Burdwan district in the 1960s and 1970s, a violent peasant movement was organised in one district and a labour movement in the other.
Nirupam Sen joined the bandwagon of this movement. He was accused along with other CPI(M) leaders for this. On the night of March 16, 1970, the day after the overthrow of the second United Front government, the United Front called for a general strike. Saibari's murder happened during this time. Nirupam Sen's name was also involved in this case. In 1985, Nilu Parmson became a member of the party's state committee. In 1995, Nirupam was elected as a member of the CPM State Secretariat, transferring several responsibilities from the districts to the states.
In 1998, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the party's sixteenth congress in Calcutta. In 2008, a member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee. Nirupam Sen was chosen to continue serving as the Member of Parliament for the Burdwan (South) Parliamentary Constituency in the year 2001. This time, the left-wing government that he applied for a job in offered him the position of Minister of Industry and Trade. He won re-election as a candidate from the centre in 2006. At this point in time, he was promoted to the position of Minister of Industry and Trade. In later years, he served as both the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Energy at the same time.
In addition to being well-known for the numerous speeches he gave during significant debates in Parliament during his time as an MLA and minister, he also made significant contributions to the industrialization of the country when he served as the Minister of Commerce and Industry for the Left Front government. During this decade of industrialization, he built on agricultural success, protected the interests of migrant workers, and attracted public investment in industry and infrastructure. All of these things were done in order to promote industrialization. Additionally, he was successful in establishing state-owned investments in a variety of industries including oil and gas, steel, and others. by maintaining ongoing dialogue with the national government.
In addition to this, he was successful in negotiating with the Tatu family to relocate their automobile project from Uttarakhand to Singur within the state. despite the fact that it was ultimately scrapped in the Singur project. In addition to this, he was a significant contributor to the development of the country's electrical infrastructure as well as the strengthening of the Electricity Commission's financial standing. He penned a number of articles that provided an explanation of the objectives and priorities of the Left Front government.
His published works include titles such as Political Economy, In Search of Alternatives, The Times and Our Party, Economic Thought, The Danker Proposal and Indian Sovereignty, The Chinese Diary, The Communist Manifesto in the Mirror of Time, Confronting Communism, Background Ideology, and Others. He was born in China and died in the United States. Books such as "Why It's Controversial," "Finding the White Parabat," "Kashmir Riots," and others like these. Extremely well-liked. In 2013, Neilupamsen experienced a cerebral haemorrhage, which led to his serious illness. Even though he made a full recovery in time, he will always be paralysed. As a direct consequence of this, he withdrew from participating in active politics. He was elevated to the position of special member of the CPC Central Committee at the Party Congress in 2015.
Even when he was sick, Comrade Nirupam Sen would make it out to party meetings in his wheelchair as often as he could. He will be remembered for all time in the annals of the history of the left and of the left's ascendancy to power in this country.
