মনোরঞ্জন ব্যাপারী

Manoranjan Byapari is an Indian Bengali writer and socio-political activist. He was born in 1950. He has been elected as an M.L.A. from Balagarh (SC) Assembly Constituency representing the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Elections 2021. Along with Manohar Mouli Biswas, Gobinda Das Sounda, Sunil Das, Mahitosh Biswas, Sukriti Ranjan Biswas, Achintya Biswas, Bimalendu Haldar, Jatin Bala, Kapil Krishna Thakur, Lily Haldar, Kalyani Thakur Charal, Manju Bala, Bina Das, Anil Ranjan Biswas, he is among the early writers of Dalit literature in Bengali from the Indian state of West Bengal. He could not afford any formal education and is perhaps the only convict-turned-Rickshaw puller who has penned a dozen novels and over a hundred short stories, apart from non-fiction essays. His political career begins now, as he has been elected mla from tmc in wb legislative assembly election 2021.