Sailen Dasgupta (1920 – 10 July 2001), was an Indian communist politician.
He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) between 1990 and 1998 and member of the party's politburo beginning in 1992 until his death in 2001.
Dasgupta was born in 1920 in the Barishal district in undivided Bengal and completed his matriculation in 1938.
He was active in the party throughout the decades and because Secretary of the State Committee in 1990;[2] He was reelected in 1991, 1995 and 1998.
[citation needed] He was also elected as the chairperson of Left Front in West Bengal in 1990.