Son of Prankrishna Bal, Lokenath Bal (1907 -1964)was born in the Dhorla village under Boalkhali police station of the Chittagong district. From his early days, he was closely associated with Surya Sen, the leader of the Chittagong Uprising (1930) in the history of Indian freedom struggle.
On 18 April, 1930, Surya Sen split the revolutionaries into small groups allocating specific duties to each: seizure of police armory, attack on the telegraph office, railway station and European club. Lokenath led a posse of ten armed men to raid the Auxiliary Forces Armoury and occupied it without much opposition. With other groups executing their tasks, and a provisional government established under Masterda, British authority literally ceased to exist in Chittagong for three days.
On the arrival of paramilitary forces, revolutionaries retreated to Jalalabad Hill. On 22 April 1930, led by Lokenath Bal they fought with the British armed forces, while ten of their compatriots fell to bullets including his younger brother, Harigopal (Tegra). In the following evening, many of their top leaders including Lokenath managed to escape.
He escaped to the French Chandannagore, till their shelter was raided by the Calcutta police commissioner, Charles Tegart (1 September 1930), at the head of a large force; shot dead one of the inmates and arrested Lokenath along with two others. In the trial, all of them were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Cellular Jail (1 March 1932). Released in 1946, he served the Calcutta Corporation as the Deputy Commissioner.