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- C.R. Das served as the president of the Indian National Congress for a session and co-founder of the Swaraj Party.
- He was also known as ‘Deshbandhu’, or ‘friend of the nation’.
- He entered active politics in 1917 during the Congress Calcutta session.
- As he was a lawyer, he defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the 1908 Alipore Bomb Case.
- He also contributed to the English weekly ‘Bande Mataram’ along with Aurobindo and Bipin Chandra Pal.
- He published his collection of poems in two volumes titled ‘Malancha’ and ‘Mala’.
- In 1919, he criticized the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, which were aimed at establishing a dual government system or dyarchy in India.
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