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Jitendra Lal Das

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ109252769 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jitendra Lal Das popularly known as Junu Das was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India. He was a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, representing the Belonia constituency from 1972 to 1977. He was one of the founding members of the AISF. He was elected as Secretary of the CPI Tripura State Council in the year 1972, a post which he held until his death in 1992.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1977, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jitendra, Indian and politician is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109252769. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1977 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jitendra Lal Das” 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.