Prafulla Chandra Sen - His Political Legacy

His Political Legacy

He was strongly opposed to the Marxists. His own brother Manindra Nath Sengupta was a Undivided Communist Party Leader from South Kolkata. Both bothers are very much ideologically different from each other. But one thing is common among them both were dedicated their life towards the development of poor people of India. Even during the period of Manindra Nath's serious life threatening illness, his family requested to present CM Prafulla Chandra Sen to provide some free health care facility in government hospitals to save Manindra Nath's life, as his family do not have money for health check up.Manindra Nath Sengupta was himself a renowned doctor of Homeopathy at that point of time. He distributes all his earning to the poor mass and offers health care for free of cost to the poor and needy people of Kolkata. No special favor was offered by Prafulla Chandra Sen but only a written letter for an ordinary general free bed in MLA quota if vacant with medical college in Kolkata was provided to Manindra Nath's family. When the above, came to Manindra Naths knowledge, he refused to take admission to Medical college for any treatment.Both brothers were ideologically different one was Congressmen and other was Communist but they are quite similar in dedication towards their party and self less sacrifices to the nation and no political advantages was given to any of the family or any other party members, which is till date is a lesson to learn for present politicians of India. He helped to transform the Congress Party in Bengal from an anti-imperialist unit into one capable of winning elections and capable governance. When the Indian National Congress was split in the 1960s by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, its more powerful faction took the name of its benefactor and was called the Congress(I), whilst the other less powerful faction, and the one that Sen joined was called the Congress(O). By the 1980s the latter had virtually disappeared. Although disillusioned with the state of the Congress(I) Party later, he remained an optimist to the end. One of his last acts a fortnight before he died was to participate, sitting in a wheelchair, in a Congress(I) sponsored march in Calcutta, to protest against the state's Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government.