From boyhood, the CPI(ML) general secretary has dreamt of liberating the millions who are socially shackled. The party, once underground, grows too slowly to bring about enduring change

Among the leaders spearheading the political parties in the Bihar Assembly elections , Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya is decidedly an exception. He topped the 1979 West Bengal Higher Secondary Board Examination, secured a Master’s degree from Kolkata’s Indian Statistical Institute, scoring 65 per cent in Quantitative Economics and Planning, now known as econometrics — and still chose to join the CPI (ML), then on the cusp of transiting from being underground to participating in elections.

He’s neither a political dynast nor has a wealthy ba

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