Dhireswar Kalita (22 April 1922 – 14 January 1997) was an Indian politician who was a leader in the Communist Party of India.
[2] Kalita had previously been associated with Congress as a student up to 1943, and he was a member of the Gauhati Local Board.
As Student Federation volunteer he served in Burma refugee camps in Pandu and in Gauhati in 1941.
During the Bengal famine, he managed a destitute home at Gauhati from 1943 to 1944.
Kalita died in Guwahati on 14 January 1997, at the age of 74.