Gurudas dasgupta, CPI MP, West bengal
It was around 1986. A prominent company was evading taxes for long. CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta garnered all the evidence and sent it to the concerned authority. Later, a huge amount of tax was recovered. As per government rules, Dasgupta was rewarded with a percentage of that recovered taxes: he got Rs nine lakh! And bought his first luxury car… no way: he gave
away a large amount from this to help the hundreds of children of people who were dying in the Khalistan movement in Punjab! The rest was divided between Punjab Kesri newspaper group and Kolkata-based Punjab Festival Committee, both of which were fighting for the cause of these orphans!
Dasgupta was born in Borishal (now in Bangladesh), but migrated to Kolkata, completed his education and started working as a school teacher. Already popular as a leader of the Communist Party of India’s students wing, he finally opted for whole-time activism. Dasgupta was most vocal against the Stock Market Scam during Narsimha Rao government and his revelations forced the government to set up the first Joint Parliamentary Committee, where as a member he exposed the Harshad Mehta-led scam.
It was during this period that one of the top industrialist families of India sent him baskets full of the costliest variety of mangoes, but he returned them without so much as allowing the carriers inside his house. Later, his house was ransacked thrice to recover the incriminating documents, but still he did not budge from his position.....Continue
It was around 1986. A prominent company was evading taxes for long. CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta garnered all the evidence and sent it to the concerned authority. Later, a huge amount of tax was recovered. As per government rules, Dasgupta was rewarded with a percentage of that recovered taxes: he got Rs nine lakh! And bought his first luxury car… no way: he gave
away a large amount from this to help the hundreds of children of people who were dying in the Khalistan movement in Punjab! The rest was divided between Punjab Kesri newspaper group and Kolkata-based Punjab Festival Committee, both of which were fighting for the cause of these orphans!Dasgupta was born in Borishal (now in Bangladesh), but migrated to Kolkata, completed his education and started working as a school teacher. Already popular as a leader of the Communist Party of India’s students wing, he finally opted for whole-time activism. Dasgupta was most vocal against the Stock Market Scam during Narsimha Rao government and his revelations forced the government to set up the first Joint Parliamentary Committee, where as a member he exposed the Harshad Mehta-led scam.
It was during this period that one of the top industrialist families of India sent him baskets full of the costliest variety of mangoes, but he returned them without so much as allowing the carriers inside his house. Later, his house was ransacked thrice to recover the incriminating documents, but still he did not budge from his position.....Continue
