Brinda karat and prakash karat biography
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Brinda karat and prakash karat biography
Brinda Karat
Indian politician (born 1947)
Brinda Karat (née Das; born 17 October 1947)[1][2] is an Indian Marxist politician and former member of Rajya Sabha for West Bengal, serving as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) representative from 11 April 2005 to 2011.
In 2005, she became the first woman member of the CPI(M) Politburo.[3] She has also been the general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) from 1993 to 2004[4][5] and thereafter its vice-president.[6]
Early life and education
Karat was born on 17 October 1947 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India to Oshrukona Mitra, and Suraj Lal Das.
Her mother was Bengali, and her father was a Punjabi refugee from Lahore in the newly created Pakistan. Theirs was an inter-community marriage fraught with familial opposition; Mitra’s father’s brother imposed a social ban on attending the wedding.
In response, she approached her mother’s family,