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. |