{{Short description|Indian independence activist and politician}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = ''Comrade'' | education = BA and MA | name = Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri | image = | caption = | office = Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | term_start = 1987 | term_end = 1997 | predecessor = | successor = Abani Roy | constituency = West Bengal | office1 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | term1 = 1952–1984 | predecessor1 = ''Constituency established'' | successor1 = Atish Chandra Sinha | constituency1 = Baharampur, West Bengal | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|12|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Dhaka, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India<br>(now in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh)<ref name="TK_Chaudhuri_bio">{{cite book|date=2004 |title=Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri |url=https://eparlib.sansad.in/bitstream/123456789/761786/1/Tridib_Kumar_Chaudhuri_English.pdf |location=New Delhi |publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|access-date=9 September 2025}}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|12|21|1911|12|13|df=y}} | death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India | party = Revolutionary Socialist Party | other_party = {{ubl|Indian National Congress|Congress Socialist Party}} | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = Calcutta University | website = | footnotes = | date = 17 September | year = 2006 | source = http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4088 }}
'''Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri''' (13 December 1911 – 21 December 1997) was an Indian independence activist and politician. He was a leader and founder of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Baharampur in West Bengal.
Chaudhuri was born to a middle-class ''zamindari'' family with roots in Haripur, Pabna District.<ref name="TK_Chaudhuri_bio"/> He passed his BA examination in 1933 and subsequently MA in economics from the University of Calcutta as an external candidate from jail, when he was imprisoned for sedition against the colonial rule.<ref name="TK_Chaudhuri_bio"/><ref name=Tridib>[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4232.html Tridib Chowdhuri and his Growing Relevance by Pramothes Mukherjee]</ref>
He was the joint opposition candidate for the 1974 Indian presidential election and became the first Bengali to participate in the presidential election in India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1984 and Rajya Sabha from 1987 until his death in 1997. He had participated in Goa Liberation Movement.<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/lsdeb/ls12/ses1/02250398.htm parliamentofindia obituary]</ref> He was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://murshidabad.gov.in/history2.htm | title = History of Murshidabad | access-date = 2010-10-01 | publisher = Murshidabad district administration}}</ref>
==Lok Sabha experience==
Tridib Chaudhuri was present in seven Lok Sabhas, from 1952 until 1984.
==1974 Indian Presidential Election==
On 17 August 1974, the Election Commission of India held indirect 6th presidential elections of India. Tridib Chaudhuri lost to Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed by a margin of 189,196 votes.
==Books==
• The Swing Back: A Critical Survey of the Devious Zig-zags of CPI, Political Line (1947–50).
==References==
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{{First to Tenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
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