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He was also a member of the CPI M 's politburo , its supreme decision-making body. Although he personally never contested an election, Dasgupta earned a reputation as a disciplined organiser of the party and its cadres.

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Under his leadership, the CPI M -led Left Front came to power in a landslide victory in the election, and remained the dominant force in West Bengal politics for several decades following Dasgupta's death. Promode Dasgupta was born in July in a Baidya family in Kaurpur village in the undivided Bengal of British India ; it is now a part of Bangladesh.

His father was a doctor employed in government service. Dasgupta had eight siblings, of whom one sister would become a fellow CPI M member. PDG says of his youth, "I joined the university but gave it up soon after to become an apprentice in a workshop". In a article written during the first year of the Left Front government, India Today compared the personalities and leadership styles of Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and Promode Dasgupta.

It described the former as an urbane, mild-mannered statesman from a prosperous family who had attended Calcutta's top schools and studied law in Britain, where his conversion to Marxism had occurred. The article pointed out PDG's genius for organisation but also his reputation for being a "shadowy figure" who is "blunt, abrasive and retiring by nature".

Even as he sat all by himself in his office room at the party headquarters at Calcutta and smoked his cigar," India Today quoted a party worker, "a well-oiled communication machinery brought to him exactly what was happening at various levels of the party so that he was rarely caught off guard. In the CPI M politburo, PDG often took hardline stances against the national leadership, especially in their desire to seek out alliances with non-Left parties.

He also protected the positions of his West Bengal unit from the more moderate central politburo. Upon Dasgupta's death, Basu acknowledged the difficulty of his successor's task, both as chief organiser "When he Dasgupta was there none of us had to bother about the organisation. Now we will have to work as a collective body. On the flip side, Dasgupta is routinely cast as " Stalinist " and " anti-intellectual " by commentators.

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