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Suprakash Talukdar is an Indian politician who currently serves as the state secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Assam.

Education and political career

Suprakash is the eldest son of Nandeswar Talukdar, a freedom fighter and prominent peasants leader who served as secretary of the Assam state committee of the CPM from 1982 to 1995. Having born in a left-leaning family, he got acquainted with left-wing ideas from his childhood. He joined Students Federation of India, the student wing of CPIM while he was in Cotton Collegiate School in 1977. He studied geology from Cotton College which at that time was under Gauhati University. He was appointed the secretary of Assam state unit of SFI in 1992.

Later he was inducted into the state committee and the state secretariat of Assam CPI(M) in 1997.

He was elected to the Central Committee of the party at the end of 22nd Party Congress in Hyderabad on 22 April 2018. He held the post after the following Party Congress.

He was first elected as the state secretary of the party on 17 February 2022 in 23rd Assam state conference of CPI(M). There he placed the political and organisational report as the-then state secretary Deben Bhattacharya was absent in the conference for his illness. He got reelected to the post in the 24th conference as well.

He also serves as the working president of Asom Sonmilito Morcha, the left-wing opposition alliance in Assam.

Views on socio-political issues

He has been quite vocal against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 and Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and wrote several articles against it and played an important role in uniting the left and democratic forces in the opposition of the bill.

He was also the member of Sitaram Yechury led delegation which visited the ethnic strife-torn Manipur for two days from 18 August 2023. The delegation also visited various relief camps at Churachandpur, Moirang and Imphal and met Governor Anusuiya Uikey and various other civil society organisations.

References

1. "Left parties to use 'agrarian crisis' as plank for panchayat elections". assamtribune.com. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
2. "Assam State Conference Calls for Rejuvenating the Party and the Left". Communist Party Of India (Marxist). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2024. The conference elected a 50-memer new state committee. The new state committee elected a 14-member secretariat. Suprakash Talukdar is elected as the new state secretary.
3. "Last of the communist icons - NANDESWAR TALUKDAR (1921-2003)".
4. ^ "সুপ্ৰকাশ তালুকদাৰ CPI(M) ৰাজ্যিক কমিটিৰ সম্পাদক হিচাপে নিৰ্বাচিত - চিপিআইএমৰ ২৩ সংখ্যক অসম ৰাজ্যিক সন্মিলন".
5. "New Central Committee Elected at the 22nd Congress".
6. "Communist Party Of India (Marxist)".
7. "Assam: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Rejuvenating the Party and the Left | Peoples Democracy".
8. "Assam CPI(M) state conference ends: Suprakash Talukdar re-elected as Secy".
9. "Congress Is Responsible For Collapse Of Opposition Unity In Assam | OPINION". 26 October 2024.
10. "United opposition forum names new president after exit of Assam Cong chief".
11. "Citizenship (Amendment) Bill Will Destroy the Constitution: Suprakash Talukdar, CPI(M)".
12. Suprakash Talukdar. "The Citizenship Amendment Bill, Assam Accord and the People of Assam".
13. Suprakash Talukdar. "Citizenship Bill: Why Protests Have Spread Across Northeast".
14. https://www.newsclick.in/politics-ramifications-NRC-assam
15. "CPM condemns 'a wasteful exercise'".
16. "CPI-M delegation to visit Manipur from Friday".
17. "Sitaram Yechury-led CPI(M) delegation to visit Manipur from August 18-20". The Hindu. 17 August 2023.

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