Red Salute to Comrade Dada Ghosh !

B.N.Ghosh ( 08.1898 – 07.06.1961)

Comrade B.N.Ghosh or Dada Ghosh as he is respectfully called left us sixty five years back on 7th June 1961. He was the senior leader after Babu Tarapada Mukherjee, Henry Barton and V.G.Dalvi who organised the P and T Workers in to a mighty force.

He was one of the top leaders of the P and T movement which organised the mighty Postal Strike of 1946, which is considered as part of the independence struggle and which compelled the British Government to accede to the important demands of the strike.

When the National Federation of P and T Employees (NFPTE) was formed in 1954 as part of the realignment scheme, there was no two opinion as to who should be the first Secretary General. Dada Ghosh continued to be the Secretary General till 1960 when he vacated the post on his own.

During his period as SG, the organisation was strengthened and the government was compelled to appoint the II Central Pay Commission. He has written a series of articles on the Origin of the P&T movement and the struggling period of the organisatio

After leaving the SG post, Dada Ghosh returned to Calcutta. Probably he could not adjust to the quick change of life. To the sorrow of the entire P and T workers, he was found dead having committed suicide on 7th June 1961.

Respectful homage to Dada Ghosh, the founder Secretary General of NFPTE!

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