India, April 27 -- Kalatan Dasgupta is a CPI(M) youth leader from West Bengal who entered politics through student activism, starting with SFI and later working in DYFI, where he built his base through campus politics, local mobilisation, and party organisation work in Kolkata and North 24 Parganas. His political identity is rooted more in movement-based activism than in holding any elected office.

He gained wider public attention during the RG Kar Medical College protest movement (2024), where he was part of early student-led demonstrations and became a visible Left voice in street protests around issues of safety, governance, and accountability in institutions. This period significantly increased his recognition beyond internal party c...