His oratory and organisational skills had also earned him praise of then prime minister Indira Gandhi. The pair crisscrossed the length and breadth of West Bengal, fighting the two-front ideological and political battle with the Naxalites and the Left. Mukherjee's organisational skills were noticed by Dasmunsi, who took him under his wings. After being baptised in politics as a student leader of Bangabasi College in 1967, when West Bengal had its first non-Congress government, Mukherjee, through his organisational and oratory skills, quickly rose through the ranks and became one of the most popular leaders of the Congress, along with late Union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi and former state Congress president Somen Mitra.ĭasmunsi and Mitra died in 20 respectively.
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