Dr. Harish Bhalla

Som Nath Chatterjee Speaker Lok Sabha as Chief Guest

Somnath Chatterjee (25 July 1929 – 13 August 2018) was a prominant politician of India who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) from 2004 to 2009

Born in Tezpur, Assam, his father, Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, was a prominent lawyer, intellectual, and Hindu revivalist and nationalist^. NC Chatterjee was one of the founders and one-time president of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha.

Somnath was educated Presidency College and then the University of Calcutta. He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in London and took up legal practice as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court before joining active politics.

He  was elected to Parliament nine times, except once when he lost to Mamata Banerjee in the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in 1984.

Som Nathji was invited by Dr KN Katju Memorial Trust for its annual Lecture in IHC and his speech was the landmark speech on the subject of Law and Parliament .

30/07/2020