Bhakti Bhushan Mandal (1920 – 30 August 2004)[1] was an Indian politician belonging to the All India Forward Bloc.
[3][4] Mandal held the post of Minister for Judicial and Legislative in the second United Front cabinet formed in West Bengal in 1969.
[6] In the early 1980s he led a Mandal Action Commission, which called for recognition as Other Backward Castes for 177 communities in West Bengal (encompassing around 50 percent of the population of the state).
[6] Mandal was publicly reprimanded by the Left Front chairman Promode Dasgupta for failure to maintain fish production levels.
[12] At the time of the swearing in of the Buddhadev Bhattacharya government in November 2000, Mandal was hospitalized at SSKM Hospital in Calcutta for malaria[13] Mandal was not nominated for re-election in the 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, for health reasons.