Manikuntala Sen [SEP] educated at
activities of the nationalist jatra playwright Mukunda Das. Ashwini Kumar Dutta, a prominent nationalist leader and educationist, was a friend of the family and an early influence on her, as was Jagadish Chandra Mukhopadhyay, principal of Brajamohan College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, where Manikuntala Sen got her BA degree; Mukhopadhyay especially encouraged her to develop her mind. Sen met Gandhi when he visited Barishal in 1923, and was particularly impressed by the way he exhorted a group of prostitutes to work towards liberation. The family stopped
-1972 Kalighat.
There was an assembly seat at Kalighat from 1951 to 1972. In 1951, Manikuntala Sen of Communist Party of India defeated Debabrata Mookherjee IndianNational Congress, Santi Bhusan Bose Bharatiya Jana Sangh and others. In 1957, Manikuntala Sen CPI defeated Bivabati Mitra INC. In 1962, Beva Mitra of INC defeated Manikuntala Sen of CPI. 1967 B.Mitra of INC defeated D.Mazumder of CPI(M). 1969 Sadhan Gupta Communist Party of India (Marxist) defeated Beva Mitra of INC Kalighat. In 1971, Rathin Talukdar of INC