Biman Banerjee

Biman Banerjee
Biman Banerjee
Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 May 2011
Governor	M. K. Narayanan; D. Y. Patil; Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar
Deputy	Haider Aziz Safwi ; Sukumar Hansda
Preceded by	Hashim Abdul Halim
Member of Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 May 2011
Preceded by	Rahul Ghosh
Constituency	Baruipur Paschim
Personal details
Born	2 December 1948; Barisal, East Bengal, Pakistan; (now in Bangladesh)
Nationality	Indian
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Residence	Kolkata

Biman Banerjee (born 2 December 1948) is an Indian politician who has been Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2011.

Life and career

Born in Barishal (Presently Bangladesh) and brought up in Garden Reach, Biman Banerjee graduated from the Goenka college and completed his master's degree in commerce and simultaneously in law from the University of Calcutta. His grandfather, Satish Chandra Banerjee, and his father, Pranotosh Banerjee, were reputed lawyers. He was employed in the Bank of India but subsequently left the job and joined the legal profession. He also served as a part-time lecturer in commercial & industrial law in Hari Mohan Ghosh College and was an examiner in the Calcutta University. He was elected as Councilor of Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1985 from ward no. 136. He was also elected as a member of the West Bengal Bar Council.[1]

In May 2011, the Trinamool MLA from Baruipur Paschim and practicing lawyer was elected as Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly unopposed, as the Opposition did not nominate a candidate for the post.[2] After the election, he took a decision to give more importance to the sensitivities of the opposition and promised to give them more time to speak, on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's advice, a decision which was welcomed by the Leader of the Opposition, Suryakanta Mishra. After Biman Banerjee was elected, he was taken to the Speaker's Chair by Mishra, Prabodh Chandra Sinha and Subhas Naskar, where he engaged in the protocol of exchanging courtesies with the outgoing speaker, Hashim Abdul Halim.[3][4]

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gollark: When someone dials your channel, you say "yes, take call" or "no, decline call".

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References

Biman Banerjee. "Biman Banerjee — Home Page". Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
PTI (21 May 2011). "West Bengal: Biman Banerjee nominated for Speaker, Sonali Guha for Dy Speaker". Dainik Bhaskar. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
HT Correspondent (30 May 2011). "Biman Banerjee elected West Bengal assembly speaker". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
Pallab Ghosh (30 May 2011). "Biman Bandopadhyay become new speaker in West Bengal Assembly". InstaBlogs. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

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[1] Biman Banerjee. "Biman Banerjee — Home Page". Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

[2] PTI (21 May 2011). "West Bengal: Biman Banerjee nominated for Speaker, Sonali Guha for Dy Speaker". Dainik Bhaskar. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

[3] HT Correspondent (30 May 2011). "Biman Banerjee elected West Bengal assembly speaker". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

[4] Pallab Ghosh (30 May 2011). "Biman Bandopadhyay become new speaker in West Bengal Assembly". InstaBlogs. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.