Chandra Kumar Bose Age, Wiki and Bio

Chandra Kumar Bose

Quick Info

ProfessionPolitician, Businessman
NationalityIndian
Date of Birth04/10/1960
Age64 years
BirthplaceCalcutta, West Bengal

Physical Stats & More

Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Educational Qualification(s)

Hendrix College, LondonGeneral Certificate of Economics (1979)
Institute of Modern Management, KolkataPost Graduate Diploma in Business Management (1982)

Personal Life

Date of Birth04/10/1960
Age (as of 2023)63 Years
BirthplaceCalcutta, West Bengal
Zodiac signLibra
HometownCalcutta, West Bengal

Relationships & More

Marital StatusMarried

Family

WifeUsha Menon
FatherAmiya Nath Bose (politician)
MotherJyotsna Bose
Siblings
BrotherSurya Bose (businessman)
SisterMadhuri Bose (human rights advocate and writer)
Other Relatives
GrandfatherSarat Chandra Bose (a Bengali barrister and independence activist)
GrandmotherBibhabati Bose
Great-grandfatherJanakinath Bose (lawyer)
Great-grandmotherPrabhabati Bose (Indian activist and politician)

Career

Political PartyBharatiya Janata Party (2016 - 2023)

Some Lesser Known Facts

Chandra Kumar Bose is an Indian politician and businessman.
He is the grandnephew of Indian freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose, Netaji’s elder brother.
In 2023, he resigned from the Bhartiya Janta Party’s West Bengal unit where he was a member and vice president.
Chandra Kumar Bose serves as a general secretary of the Indian Socialist Democratic Forum, focused on human rights awareness in Third World countries.
His father, Amiya Nath Bose, represented the Arambagh constituency in West Bengal as a Member of Parliament.
After graduation, Chandra Kumar Bose worked at the Tata Management Training Centre in Jamshedpur for eighteen years as a marketing executive.
In 2000, he became a director at Bose Information Technology, based in Hamburg, Germany, specializing in human resource consultancy and skill development.
He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 23 January 2016, becoming the West Bengal vice president and contested the 2016 West Bengal assembly elections.
In 2019, he ran for the Kolkata Dakshin constituency in the general elections but lost, also voicing opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
In 2020, Chandra Kumar Bose was named the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate for the West Bengal assembly elections.
On 7 September 2023, he resigned from the BJP due to disagreements over party actions affecting their prospects in West Bengal.