# Harendra Kumar Sur

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{{Short description|Bengali politician}}
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'''Harendra Kumar Sur''' (1893 - 3 October 1964) was an anti-colonial Bengali politician, and a representative of [East Pakistan](/source/East_Pakistan) to the [Constituent Assembly of Pakistan](/source/Constituent_Assembly_of_Pakistan).

Sur was a lawyer by training.<ref name=":1" /> In the 1937 Bengal Provincial Assembly Elections, Sur filed his nomination from [Noakhali](/source/Noakhali_District) from the [Indian National Congress](/source/Indian_National_Congress).<ref>{{cite book |last=Chatterjee |first=Srilata |title=Congress Politics in Bengal 1919–1939 |chapter=Congress in Electoral Politics and After, 1935–39 |date=2003 |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/congress-politics-in-bengal-19191939/congress-in-electoral-politics-and-after-193539/97F9C4E63D067F2329BEEE83331C80A2 |page=182 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-84331-366-3}}</ref> He drubbed his opponent, an independent candidate.<ref name="Return_1937">{{Cite book |url=http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/39732/GIPE-011885-09.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y |title=Return showing the results of Elections in India: 1937 |date=November 1937 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |pages=4, 100, 102 |language=en}}</ref>{{Efn|Sur polled 12,393 votes against 193 managed by his opponent.}} He did not seek re-election to the Assembly in 1946;'''<ref name="Morgue_and_Ref">{{Cite archive |collection=Home Political |institution=National Archive of India |item-url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2718519 |item-id=HOME_POLITICAL_I_1945_NA_F-79-46 |item=Vol. III of Press Information Bureau's Morgue and Ref Series: (1) Analysis of the Results of General Elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures Held In 1945-46 (2) Indian Political Parties, and (3) Provincial Minstries 1937-45}}</ref>''' nonetheless, he was elected{{efn|The Cabinet Mission Plan had reserved one seat in the Constitution Assembly per million people of a province. These seats were distributed among Muslims, Sikhs, and General (Hindus and others) category in proportion to their share of population in the province and were to be elected by legislators of the particular community. Bengal Province was allotted with sixty seats, of which twenty seven were reserved for General category and rest for Muslims.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Rao |first=B. Shiva |title=The Framing of India's Constitution: A Study |publisher=The Indian Institute of Public Administration |year=1968 |location=Nasik, India |pages=93–95 |language=en}}</ref>}} by the Assembly on a Congress ticket to the [Constituent Assembly of India](/source/Constituent_Assembly_of_India).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rao |first=B. Shiva |title=The Framing of India's Constitution: Select Documents |publisher=The Indian Institute of Public Administration |year=1968 |volume=I |location=Nasik, India |pages=309 |language=en}}</ref> After [partition](/source/Partition_of_India), Noakhali went to Pakistan and Majumdar became a member of the [Constituent Assembly of Pakistan](/source/Constituent_Assembly_of_Pakistan).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Commonwealth Relations Office List 1952 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |year=1952 |location=London |pages=171 |language=en |chapter=Pakistan}}</ref> During the [Noakhali riots](/source/Noakhali_riots), he opened a peace camp at [Chowmuhani](/source/Chowmuhani).<ref name=":1" />

Sur died on 3 October 1964 at [R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital](/source/R._G._Kar_Medical_College_and_Hospital), [Kolkata](/source/Kolkata).<ref name=":1">{{cite book |title=Calcutta Municipal Gazette |date=1964 |publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLXFScQ__q0C&q=%22Harendra+Kumar+Sur%22+died |language=en}}</ref>

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Category:Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954
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Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
Category:Bengali Hindus
Category:Pakistani Hindus
Category:Politicians from East Pakistan
Category:Pakistani emigrants to India
Category:Naturalised citizens of India
Category:Politicians from Kolkata
Category:1893 births
Category:Bangladesh National Congress politicians

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