Dipankar Bhattacharya (born December 1960)[2] is an Indian politician and the national general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation.
[2] He was formerly the secretary of the Indian People's Front and All India Central Council of Trade Unions.
[5] Bhattacharya states that a large section of the population is rendered invisible in the country and that only a tiny minority holds the reins of political power and benefits from economic progress.
He holds the view that economic growth in India has not coincided with the empowerment of people and defines empowerment as material questions such as employment, education, housing and hygiene, that the policies of privatisation and commercialisation of healthcare and education are contradictory to the vision of an empowered India promoting further dis-empowerment.
After the demise of Vinod Mishra who was the general secretary of the party, Bhattacharya was unanimously elected to the post.