Prafulla Chandra Sen

Prafulla Chandra Sen was a Bengali politician and freedom fighter. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1961 to 1967. Sen was born in the Khulna District of Bengal on the 10th of April 1897. Most of his childhood was spent in Bihar, Eastern India. Sen was strongly opposed to Marxists. His own brother Manindra Nath Sengupta was an Undivided Communist Party leader from South Kolkata.

To his last, he remained a bachelor with an undemanding lifestyle. He passionately championed the upliftment of village industry including home-spun cloth or khadi. According to The Independent dated 28 September 1990, Sen was "a fiery freedom fighter from Bengal state in Eastern India and later the state's Chief Minister practiced a selfless and principled brand of politics long forgotten in India today".