| Honorific Prefix: | Comrade |
| Baneswar Saikia | |
| Birth Date: | 1931 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Dumdumia Village, Nagaon, Assam, India |
| Alma Mater: | Dhing K.B. High School, Cotton College, Darrang College |
| Occupation: | Politician, Professor, Social Worker, Marxist Economist, Columnist, Writer, Lawyer |
| Office: | Assam State Secretary of Revolutionary Communist Party of India |
| Term Start: | 1968 |
| Term End: | 1975 |
| Office1: | Member of Assam Legislative Assembly[1] |
| Term Start1: | 1978 |
| Term End1: | 1983 |
| Constituency1: | Batadroba (Vidhan Sabha constituency) |
| Office2: | Assam State Secretary of Revolutionary Communist Party of India |
| Term Start2: | 1979 |
| Term End2: | 1994 |
| Office3: | General Secretary of Revolutionary Communist Party of India[2] |
| Term Start3: | 1994 |
| Term End3: | 2000 |
| Predecessor3: | Rasik Bhatt |
| Successor3: | Bimalananda Mukherjee |
| Office4: | General Secretary of Revolutionary Communist Party of India[3] |
| Term Start4: | 2003 |
| Term End4: | 2006 |
| Predecessor4: | Bimalananda Mukherjee |
| Successor4: | Biren Deka |
| Party: | Revolutionary Communist Party of India |
| Spouse: | Nirada (Deka) Saikia |
| Children: | 3 daughters |
| Parents: | Late Tularam Saikia (Father) Late Sadari Saikia (Mother) |
Baneswar Saikia (born 8 October 1931, Nagaon) is an Indian communist politician. He belongs to Revolutionary Communist Party of India.[4] He joined the party in 1947, when he was in the eighth standard. Baneswar Saikia is the son of Late Tularam Saikia and Late Sadari Saikia. He is a former lawyer, a former MLA,[5] a retired professor of Anandaram Dhekial Phookan College of Nagaon, the first Head and the founder of the Department of Economics[6] of the same college, a politician, a Marxist economist, a writer and a social worker. He is also a former State Secretary of Assam State Committee and a former General Secretary of RCPI.[7] [8] Baneswar Saikia is able to read, speak and write in Assamese, English and Bengali.
He retired from ADP College in 1991. In May 2016, ADP College Retired Teachers Forum was formed. Professor Baneswar Saikia was elected as the adviser of the association.[9]
Professor Saikia was a student activist and presently is one of the Central Committee members of the RCPI. During his school days, Saikia was influenced by Marxism. He started his political career as a students' political activist, as a member of the Assam Provincial Students' Federation (APSF). He was also involved in the RCPI-led uprisings in Assam that took place between 1948 and 1952.
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