Grown into Controversy

The 67 years old State Transport and Sports minister, who left us on August, 2009, was the master of controversies though he lived in the hearts of thousands, lakhs. While alive, he suffered a lot because of his fellow party leaders, as they always tried to make him out of focus. But his helping hands towards the poor and will power brought him into the limelight. He's none other than the person with white panama hat.... "Subhas Chakraborty" or common man's "Subhas da".

His first step into politics through student Union made him an exceptional leader. He was totally surrounded by arguments throughout his life. Even when he went to the "tarapeeth temple"to worship the "mother Goddess", other leaders claimed that he could not worship as he's a communist, but in protest he delivered that he is a hindu first then a brahmin and after that a communist.

For him politics meant support of the "mango people" or "aam janata", in his words without public backing politics is nothing. He believed a real politician is someone who have number of people behind him or her.

A young boy from Bangladesh who lived with his relatives when he first came to Calcutta later shifted to FD block salt lake city, with his single speech crowd followed not once but everytime. Unlike other communist leadershe had communicated with the mass. "Jyoti Basu"was considered to him as his "guru" in politics.

He realised communism was very tough to follow. Other commrades criticised him, as he was always stayed in the centre, surrounded by laymen. Sometimes his fellow members believed flamboyance brought him into the position he was in.

People from various categories of the society showed their condolence in his funeral may it be a celebrity like Mithun Chakraborty, Sachin Tendulkar to the broken-hearted poor who don't even get a meal daily.

It is believed, he should have got the position much before but didn't get as he left everything for the common people. At last he achieved, more of it he wanted, got his position in the state ministry level. He was loved by the people and became one of the most popular CPI(M) leader who is immortal in the hearts of the millions.