Chandra Kumar Bose

Some Lesser Known Facts About Chandra Kumar Bose

• Chandra Kumar Bose is an Indian politician and businessman. He is known for being the grandnephew of Indian freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji) and the grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose, Netaji’s elder brother. In 2023, he quit as a member and vice president of the Bhartiya Janta Party’s West Bengal unit.

• Chandra Kumar Bose is a general secretary of the Indian Socialist Democratic Forum, which works for human rights awareness in Third World countries.

• His father, Amiya Nath Bose, was a member of parliament from the Arambagh constituency in West Bengal. Once, in a media conversation, Chandra Kumar Bose stated that his father used to spend two hours daily talking about Subhash Chandra Bose. Chandra Kumar Bose said,
  

  My father Amiya Nath Bose had spent a lot of time with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The two of them had shared a same bedroom for six years. So I grew up listening to stories of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Every evening after dinner, my father used to spend at least two hours talking about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.”

  

• After completing his graduation, in June 1982, Chandra Kumar Bose joined Tata Management Training Centre in Jamshedpur as a marketing executive and worked there for eighteen years. In September 2000, he left the company and started working as a director at Bose Information Technology, which was started by his brother, Surya Bose, in Hamburg, Germany. This company deals in human resource consultancy and skill development.

• On 23 January 2016, Chandra Kumar Bose joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at a public meeting in Howrah in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Thereafter, he was appointed as the West Bengal BJP vice-president. He then contested the 2016 West Bengal assembly elections from the Bhabanipur constituency in West Bengal.

  

• In 2019, he contested the general elections from the Kolkata Dakshin constituency but lost to Mala Roy of All India Trinamool Congress. In the same year, he opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

• In 2020, Chandra Kumar Bose was appointed as the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the West Bengal assembly elections.

  

• On 7 September 2023, Chandra Kumar Bose resigned from the BJP. In a media conversation, he stated that he could not work with the party because the party was doing things that divided people and hurt their chances in West Bengal. Chandra Kumar Bose said,
  

  I gave a lot of proposals to the party on how we should work which were not accepted. The party is moving on the wrong track in Bengal. There is polarisation, vote-bank politics and divisive politics that ruined our chances in Bengal.”