Anil Kumar Chanda

Anil Kumar Chanda
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1967-1971
Succeeded by Saradish Roy
Constituency Bolpur, West Bengal
In office
1952-1962
Succeeded by Sisir Kumar Das
Constituency Birbhum, West Bengal
Personal details
Born 23 May 1906
Silchar, Assam, British India
Died 21 April 1976 (aged 69)
Political party Indian National Congress
Spouse Rani Chanda
Children Abhijit Chanda
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Anil Kumar Chanda (born 23 May 1906-21 April 1976) was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was the Deputy Minister of External Affairs and later Deputy Minister, Works, Housing and Supply Ministry in Nehru Ministry. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked as chief secretary to Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan. He and his wife author Rani Chanda (1912-1997) were the closest associates of Rabindranath Tagore during the last decade of his life. Rani Chanda gifted few beautiful memoirs of that period to the Bengali readers. They had one son, Abhijit Chanda. They eventually settled in Shantiniketan.