Dipendu Biswas

Dipendu Biswas (29 September 1981) is an Indian retired professional footballer,[1][2] who is the current team manager of the Indian Super League outfit Mohammedan Sporting Club.

[citation needed] Biswas's father is from Bengal and mother is from Kerala, Thalasseri, Kannur district.

[4] In 2011, he was one of a handful of players who were sold land by the government at subsidised prices because they had "made the state proud at national and international levels.

"[5] In 2014, he ran for election from Basirhat in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress party, and was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Samik Bhattacharya.

In the 2016 state assembly elections, he defeated Bhattacharya by more than 20,000 votes.