Nirupam Sen (8 October 1946 — 24 December 2018) was a Bengali Marxist political leader and former Commerce and Industries minister of the Government of West Bengal during 2001 to 2011.
Under the leadership of him and then Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Left Front Government led new industrialisation policy in Singur and Nandigram.
[1] He was also a front-runner to become the secretary of West Bengal state committee of CPI(M) twice in 2006, after the death of Anil Biswas and again in 2012 after the party's drubbing in 2011 assembly elections.
By the end of 2006, the land acquisition movement at Hooghly over the Singur Tata Nano controversy had started taking a toll on the regime.
[6] Apart from land acquisition issues, Sen's name also cropped up in the Sainbari incident in March 1970 after the fall of United Front government in West Bengal.