Professor, Social Worker, Marxist Economist, Columnist, Writer, Baneswar Saikia (born 8 October 1931, Nagaon) is an Indian communist politician.

He is a former lawyer, a former MLA,[5] a retired professor of Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College of Nagaon, the first Head and the founder of the Department of Economics[6] of the same college, a politician, a Marxist economist, a writer and a social worker.

[7][8] Baneswar Saikia is able to read, speak and write in Assamese, English and Bengali.

Professor Baneswar Saikia was elected as the adviser of the association.

[9] Professor Saikia was a student activist and presently is one of the Central Committee members of the RCPI.