{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Gour Chandra Bala | office = Forest, Agriculture and Food Minister | term_start = 1957 | term_end = 1958 | predecessor = | successor = Kazi Abdul Kader | birth_date = 1927 | birth_place = Ullabari, Faridpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India | death_date = 18 June 2005 | death_place = Faridpur, Bangladesh | party = BAKSAL | other_party = {{ubl|AL (1964–1975)|SCF (1954–1958)}} | native_name = গৌরচন্দ্র বালা | native_name_lang = bn | profession = Lawyer }} '''Gour Chandra Bala''' (1927–2005) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.
==Biography== Bala was born in 1927 in Ullabari, Faridpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Rajoir Upazila, Madaripur District, Bangladesh).<ref name=j/> He was a schoolteacher in Faridpur. He started his political career in 1946 actively.<ref name=b>{{Cite thesis |last=Sohail |first=Amber |author-link= |year=2012 |title=Positive Economic Analysis of the Constitutions - Case of Formation of the First Constitution of Pakistan |publisher=University of Marburg |location=Marburg |isbn= |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2013/0468/pdf/das.pdf |page=95}}</ref> A member of East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation,<ref name=b/> Bala was elected to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1954 and Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1955 from Faridpur North-East. He was East Pakistan's Forest and Food Minister in 1957. In 1970, he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of East Pakistan. He joined Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He was selected as a member of Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh in 1972. In 1975, he retired from politics.<ref>{{cite book |title=The East Bengal Civil List |date=1955 |publisher=East Bengal Government Press,. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Gour+Chandra+Bala%22 |accessdate=11 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Assembly |first1=East Pakistan (Pakistan) |title=Assembly Proceedings; Official Report |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyIdAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Gour+Chandra+Bala%22 |accessdate=11 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=j>{{cite news|title=সাবেক প্রাদেশিক মন্ত্রী গৌর চন্দ্র বালার পরলোকগমন|lang=bn|page=2|date=19 June 2005|newspaper=Janakantha}}</ref> Bala died on 18 June 2005 in Jhiltuli, Faridpur, Bangladesh.<ref name="gcb">{{cite news |title=Gour Chandra Bala |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-238715 |accessdate=11 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=18 June 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=j/>
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