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Debabrata Biswas (politician)

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5247807 ↗
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Debabrata Biswas (born 28 September 1945) is a politician and the General Secretary of the All India Forward Bloc from 1997. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament.

He was Member of Rajya Sabha for four terms, 3-4-1990 to 2-4-1996, 3-4-1996 to 2-4-2002 and 3-4-2002 to 2-4-2008 and 3-4-2008 to 2-4-2014. However he resigned on 23-9-2008.

He was Leader of AIFB in Rajya Sabha. He is married to Shrimati Swapna Biswas and has one daughter. He resides in Kolkata.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945, 1997, 1990, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-09-28. For this dossier, Debabrata, Biswas and politician is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Debabrata Biswas (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.