Nripen Chakraborty (4 April 1905 – 25 December 2004[1]) was an Indian Communist politician who served as the Chief minister of Tripura state from 1978 to 1988.

[2][3] He was born at Bikrampur in Dhaka District of Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh).

When the Left Front won the elections on 31 December 1977, to the Vidhan Sabha of Tripura state, he became the chief minister and continued in office till 1988.

In 1993 elections, the Left Front again came back to the power in Tripura and he became the chairman of the State Planning Board.

Later, he was a regular columnist in the daily Desher Katha, the mouthpiece of the CPI(M) Tripura state unit, often under his pen-name, Arup Roy till 1995.