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While recounting his childhood days at Chila village in Birbhum district of in West Bengal, Ram Chandra Dome remembers the daily struggle for survival and the fact that only he and another of his nine siblings could finish their graduation. Earlier this month, the 63-year-old was inducted into the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the 23rd party congress in Kannur, Kerala.
He is the first Dalit to be included in the CPI(M)’s highest decision-making body, which at present has 17 members. The move may have created a flutter in political circles, but for those who know him and have followed his political career, Dr. Dome’s elevation is hardly a surprise.
