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Asim Dasgupta
Indian economist and politician
Dr. Asim Kumar Dasgupta (born 30 October 1945) is an Indian economist and politician. He served as minister of finance and excise in the Left Front ministry in the Indianstate of West Bengal.[1] He was the MLA of Khardaha constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011, when he was defeated by FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra by a landslide 26,154 votes[2] in the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal.
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He was one of the 26 ministers who lost his seat in the historic defeat of Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government.
Education and early life
He started his school life in Malda Zilla School and Then he earned his Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degrees in Economics from the University of Calcutta.
Thereafter he secured a doctorate (PhD) in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his own words: My thesis supervisors were Robert Solow and Jagdish Bhagwati, but I h