Gupta became the first blind parliamentarian in independent India in 1953, and later served as Advocate General of West Bengal.
[1] His father, Jogesh Chandra Gupta, was a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court and a leader of the Indian National Congress.
[1][2][4] His actions in the "Emperor vs Shibnath Banerjee" case provoked praise from Mahatma Gandhi.
[2] Gupta contested the Calcutta South East seat in the 1951–1952 election, challenging Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee.
[6] Gupta was elected to the Lok Sabha (Lower House of the Parliament of India) from the Calcutta South East constituency in a 1953 by-election, held after Mukherjee died.
[10] Gupta finished in second place with 11,658 votes (31.62%), being defeated by Congress candidate Siddhartha Shankar Ray.
[14] In 1986 he was named Advocate General of West Bengal by the Left Front government, following the death of Snehangshu Kanta Acharya.
[10] Apart from his legal and political career, Gupta was noted as a singer of ganasangeet, Rabindrasangeet and folk songs.