He was the son of Freedom Fighter Babu Banarasi Das, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Akhilesh Das Gupta (born on 31 March 1961) attended Colvin Taluqdars College,[1] Lucknow, to earn a Diploma in Public Administration, LL.B., MBA & PhD (Management).
He actively served as secretary of Congress Parliamentary Party between 2003 and 2006 when Sonia Gandhi was heading Congressas well as chairman of the Organizational Election Authority for Congress in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, and successfully conducted the grass-roots level organizational elections of the Party in the year 2004–05.
Akhilesh Das Gupta, along with other higher officials of the Badminton Association of India were accused of fraud and nepotism, by favoring their own children for a goodwill trip to Japan, and were investigated by the CBI.
[9][10][11] Akhilesh Das Gupta died from a heart attack on 12 April 2017 in the early morning at his residence.