Dwarikanath Barori

Dwarikanath Barori was a Bangladeshi lawyer and Scheduled Caste politician. He served as a provincial minister of Bengal of British India and in East Bengal under Pakistan.

Barori was born in 1907 in Madaripur Subdivision, Faridpur District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India (present-day Rajoir Upazila, Madaripur District, Bangladesh).^[1][2] He was a member of the Faridpur branch of the anti-colonial secret organization Jugantar.^[3] He began his political career by joining the Indian National Congress (INC). In 1946, he was elected a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly from a Scheduled Caste constituency in Faridpur. However, in the same year he was expelled from the INC, after which he joined the All India Scheduled Caste Federation (AISCF).^[3][2][4] He was appointed a minister of Bengal Province as a member of the Suhrawardy ministry led by the All-India Muslim League (AIML). During the Sylhet referendum, he worked on behalf of the AIML.^[2] After the independence of Pakistan, the East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation (EBSCF) was formed in the newly established country, and Barori became its president.^[5] In 1950, he was appointed provincial minister of East Bengal as a member of the Amin ministry.^[2] The EBSCF split over the issue of a separate electoral system in the newly established country, dividing into two factions led respectively by Barori and Rasaraj Mandal. In the 1954 legislative election, Barori's faction was completely defeated.^[5] In 1960, he was appointed a member of the Constitution Commission formed to propose the new constitution.^[6] He died in Madaripur, Bangladesh in 1986. Mrinal Kanti Barori, Madaripur's leftist politician and revolutionary, was his son.^[3]