Student Politics Dipsita Dhar started her organisational activities through Kishore Bahini, a children's group in West Bengal. She then joined
Students' Federation of India (SFI) at
Asutosh College,
Southern Kolkata and became the acting president of SFI College Unit and later the District Committee member of Kolkata. She joined
Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2013 and became the Councillor for School of Social Sciences, the first victory in JNUSU for SFI after its disruption in 2012. She was elected as the vice president of SFI in Delhi State Committee in 2015. She then became the Central Committee Member and Central Secretariat Member of SFI. In 2017 convention at Vijayawada in
Andhra Pradesh, Dipsita became the SFI's All India Girls Student Sub Committee Convener. She again got re-elected as the SFI's All India Girls Student Sub Committee Convener in a convention held at Sikar, Rajasthan in 2021. Dipsita was also part of the Student Politician Delegation to United Kingdom along with 8 others from India, organised by the
British High Commission, New Delhi in 2015. She has faced attack from
Delhi Police for the participation in political movements including Justice for Rohit Vemula movement. Her street slogans during the anti-CAA protests helped more people connect with the political cause. During the Shaheen Bagh sit-in protests in Delhi against CAA, she was active in organising protests in Votebagan and Pilkhan of Howrah, West Bengal. She was one of the Panelist in Global Indian Progressive Panel held on 2 October 2020. She frequently appears on India's English,
Hindi and Bengali visual media as a panelist in political debates.
Gender Issues She has been a public advocate and activist for several gender issues, including against violence and abuse of women. She has also been an organizer of the 2017 campaign to send sanitary napkins to union ministers after its taxation (
bleed without fear campaign). In 2017, as a member of Central Executive Committee of SFI, she said, "Sanitary pads should be considered as a health necessity and ideally to be provided to every underprivileged girl for free or in nominal cost, as a large sections of them, due to social taboo and economic reasons cannot not attain a satisfactory menstrual hygiene." During the
COVID-19 lockdown in India, the SFI committee freely distributed sanitary napkins as a part of the campaign. She said the Covid-19 pandemic has increased the dropout rates in schools and colleges, and girl students got most affected.
LGBTQIA rights She has publicly expressed support for the LGBTQIA community as the joint secretary of SFI and a candidate in the 2021 Bengal Assembly Elections during a meeting organized by the group Left for Rainbow Rights.
Higher Education She is a vocal figure on policy issues in Indian Higher Education. She has also led the SFI delegation to the Union Ministry for addressing the under representation of marginalised students in
Indian Institutes of Technology's (IIT) and frequently advocates against caste oppression in India. She played a crucial role in Nabanna agitation in West Bengal that demanded employment and education for youth and the protests after the murder of CPI(M) activist
Maidul Islam Midda.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Dipsita Dhar contested against Dr.
Rana Chatterjee from
All India Trinamool Congress and
Baishali Dalmiya from
Bharatiya Janata Party at
Bally (Vidhan Sabha Constituency), West Bengal. She lost the seat to
TMC's Dr. Rana Chatterjee with a margin of more than 30,000 votes. As part of her campaign, she has said, "Hindus and Muslims all feel hungry in the same manner. Hunger does not distinguish between communities." She has also said, "Education has to be a fundamental right. Babasaheb Ambedkar, while writing the Constitution, understood that education can be a very important tool for mobility. [...] Education was not just an avenue to gain knowledge but a vessel to fight oppression." Social activist and celebrities including
Kafeel Khan and
Rahul Banerjee extended support for her campaign.
The Wire described her as the
" New Face of Left Politics in Bengal
." However, she lost the election and gathered 16.20% votes. == Works ==