 As leader of the "Scheduled Castes" (Dalits), Jogendranath had made common cause with the Muslim League in their demand for Pakistan, hoping that the Scheduled Castes would be benefited from it and joined the first cabinet in Pakistan as the Minister of Law and Labour.He migrated to India a few years after partition after submitting his resignation to Liaquat Ali Khan, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, citing the anti-Hindu bias of Pakistani administration.Jogendra Nath Mandal was born in Barisal district of what was then Bengal Presidency, British India, present Bangladesh in 1904.