Ram Chandra Dome | |
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Member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
Assumed office 10 April 2022 | |
Preceded by | Biman Bose |
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 2009-2014 | |
Preceded by | Somnath Chatterjee |
Succeeded by | Anupam Hazra |
Constituency | Bolpur |
In office 1989-2009 | |
Preceded by | Gadadhar Saha |
Succeeded by | Satabdi Roy |
Constituency | Birbhum |
Chief Whip, Lok Sabha, CPI(M) | |
In office 2009-2014 | |
Preceded by | Santasri Chatterjee |
Succeeded by | Jitendra Choudhury |
General Secretary, Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born | Chilla village, Birbhum district, West Bengal, India | 8 February 1959
Political party | CPI(M) |
Spouse | Bandana Dome (Das) |
Children | 1 daughter |
Residence | Birbhum |
As of 24 Dec, 2022 Source: [1] |
Ram Chandra Dome (Bengali: রাম চন্দ্র ডোম) (born 8 February 1959, Chilla village) is an Indian politician and a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). A doctor by profession, he was elected to the Lok Sabha for seven consecutive terms. He is the first member from the scheduled castes to be inducted in the politburo. He has also been serving as the national general secretary of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha, CPI(M)'s frontal organisation for backward castes, since 2018.[citation needed]