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Dutta Samant
Indian politician and trade union leader
Dattatray Samant (21 November 1932 – 16 January 1997), also known as Datta Samant, and popularly referred to as Doctorsaheb, was an Indian politician and trade union leader, who is noted for leading 200–300 thousand textile mill workers in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) on a year-long strike in 1982, which triggered the closure of most of the textile mills in the city.[1]
Trade union and political career
Samant grew up in Deobag on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, hailing from a middle-class Marathi background.
He was a qualified M.B.B.S.
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doctor from G.S. Seth Medical College and K.E.M. hospital, Mumbai and practised as a general physician in Pantnagar locality of Ghatkhopar. The struggle of his patients, most of whom were industry labourers inspired him to fight for their cause.
He spent much of his early years in the locality of Ghatkopar[citation needed] in Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra