Kolkata:

Former school education minister Kanti Biswas died at a private hospital on Wednesday night. He was 84.

In 1977, he won his first election from Gaighata and was made minister of the youth welfare department. He became a CPM state committee member in 1982 and was school education minister from 1982 to 2006.

A diehard Marxist, he joined the Communist Party when it was banned in East Pakistan, survived repression and moved to India in 1960.

Despite being born into poverty, Biswas and passed out of school as the topper. He did his MCom from Dhaka University in 1956 and returned to his alma mater, Quaid Azam Memorial College, as a teacher.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Kolkata / TNN / April 28th, 2016