Chandrima Bhattacharya

Chandrima Bhattacharya is an All India Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Housing (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms & Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation, Panchayats and Rural Development[1] of the Government of West Bengal. Previously she acted as a minister in the first reshuffle of the ministry in January 2012 after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.[2] She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012.[3] She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Judicial and Law Department, Government of West Bengal in November 2012.[4]

Chandrima Bhattacharya
Minister of State, Government of West Bengal
Assumed office
2012
GovernorM. K. Narayanan
D. Y. Patil
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
MoS of
  • Health and Family Welfare
  • Law and Justice
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
MLA
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byDibyendu Adhikari
ConstituencyKanthi Dakshin
In office
2011–2016
Succeeded byTanmoy Bhattacharya
ConstituencyDum Dum Uttar
Personal details
Born (1955-12-05) 5 December 1955
Nationality India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Residence57E Garcha Road, Kolkata

Bhattacharya holds a B.Com (1972) and an LL.B (1976) degree from the University of Calcutta.[5] She was also a practising advocate in Calcutta High Court till the 2011 elections.[3]

She had been elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly on an All India Trinamool Congress ticket from Kanthi Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2017.[6]

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Mamata inducts two new ministers". The Sunday Indian, 16 January 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  3. "Junior minister for legal leg-up". The Telegraph, 27 October 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. "Mamata reshuffles ministry, drops one minister". Business Standard 22 November 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. "Election Watch Reporter". My Neta. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  6. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 13 August 2014.


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