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.^[12] 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.^[12] She unsuccessfully contested for the post of JNUSU vice president in 2015.^[12] She later became the unit president and secretary of SFI unit in JNU.^[13] 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.^[14][15] 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.^[16] 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.^[12]

In 2018, All India Conference of SFI at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, she was elected as the All India Joint Secretary of SFI.^[17] She has faced attack from Delhi Police for the participation in political movements including Justice for Rohit Vemula movement.^[18][19] 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.^{[20][21][22][23][24]} She was one of the Panelist in Global Indian Progressive Panel held on 2 October 2020.^[25] She frequently appears on India's English, Hindi and Bengali visual media as a panelist in political debates.^[26][27]

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Dipsita Dhar contested against the Dr. Rana Chatterjee from All India Trinamool Congress and Baishali Dalmiya from Bharatiya Janata Party at Bally (Vidhan Sabha Constituency), West Bengal.^[46][47][48] As part of her campaign, she has said, "Hindus and Muslims are all feel hungry in the same manner. Hunger does not distinguish between communities."^[49][50] 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."^[1] She also gave high importance for youth's employment issue in her campaign.^[51][52] Social activist and celebrities including Kafeel Khan and Rahul Banerjee extended support for her campaign.^[53][54] The Wire described her as the " New Face of Left Politics in Bengal." ^[55] However, she lost the election.^{[citation needed]}