Ananta Singh

Ananta Lal Singh (1 December 1903 - 25 January 1979) was an Indian revolutionary, who participated in the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930.

[1] After his release, he founded a gymnasium and recruited many youths for the revolutionary movement led by Surya Sen. On 18 April 1930, he was one of the leaders of the Chittagong armoury raid.

After a short encounter with police in Feni railway station, he took shelter to French territory Chandernagore.

In the late 60s, he founded a new far left political group, Man-Money-Gun (MMG)[3] later renamed the Revolutionary Communist Council of India in Calcutta.

The members of this group conducted a number of bank robberies in Calcutta in order to raise funds for buying arms and ammunitions.

[4][5] There were series of writings in local papers and the Bhadralok who in those days was still remembering and revering the revolutionary nationalists were quite upset to learn about his deeds.