New Delhi: When Parliament meets sometime in June, it will miss one of its firebrand MPs Gurudas Dasgupta. The veteran CPI leader has decided not to contest the Lok Sabha elections.
Dasgupta, who represented Ghatal in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha says he is old and the country belongs to younger people.
Gurudas Dasgupta has been an MP since 1985. He was in the Rajya Sabha for three terms and shifted to the Lok Sabha in 2004. The 78-year-old trade union leader said "I am too old and I want to leave the space for youngsters as the country belongs to young people."
A well read Parliamentarian, Dasgupta has a formidable reputation as an MP. He had raised several important issues during his 25-year-long stint in Parliament.
Widely respected across the party lines for his austere life style and no-nonsense attitude, Dasgupta took on many powerful industrial houses both in and out of Parliament.
He made it clear that he is just retiring from the electoral politics and not from political life. Dasgupta said "Whether I am in Parliament or not, I will continue to raise these issues in public forums."
Before Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) arrived on the national horizon, Dasgupta was known as an Aam Aadmi MP. The working class will surely miss his strong voice in Parliament.
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