Subrata Mukherjee

Subrata Mukherjee is an Indian politician who is the Cabinet Minister of Panchayats & Rural development and Water Investigation & Development in the Government of West Bengal. Earlier, he has been Minister for Public Health Engineering.[1] He is a MLA, elected from the Ballygunge constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[2][3] He is a former Mayor of Kolkata and Home Minister of West Bengal in Siddhartha Shankar Ray's Government.

Subrata Mukherjee
Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal
Assumed office
20 May 2011
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Minister ofPanchayats & Rural Development
Water Investigation & Development
Preceded byGautam Deb & Surjya Kanta Mishra
36th Mayor of Kolkata
In office
12 July 2000 – 5 July 2005
DeputyMeena Devi Purohit
Preceded byPrasanta Chattopadhyay
Succeeded byBikash Ranjan Bhattacharya
ConstituencyWard No. 87
MLA, Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
Assumed office
13 May 2011
Preceded byAhmed Javed Khan
ConstituencyBallygunge
MLA, Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
In office
1996–2006
Preceded byAnil Chatterjee
Succeeded bySubrata Bakshi
ConstituencyChowranghee
Minister of Information and Cultural Affairs
Government of West Bengal
In office
2 April 1972 – 21 June 1977
Succeeded byBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
ConstituencyBallygunge
MLA, Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
In office
1971–1977
Preceded byJyoti Bhusan Bhattacharya
Succeeded bySachin Sen
ConstituencyBallygunge
MLA, Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
In office
1982–1996
Preceded byHaripada Bharati
Succeeded bySanjoy Bakshi
ConstituencyJorabagan
Personal details
Born (1946-06-14) 14 June 1946
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (1999-2004) (2010-Present)
Indian National Congress (1969-1999),(2004-2009)
ResidenceCalcutta, India (present-day Kolkata, India)
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (M.A.) Bangabasi College

Political career

In 1999, he joined hands with Mamata Banerjee, parting ways with the Indian National Congress.[4] This decision came from the Congress MLA, as INTUC denied him of the nomination to the governing body of the ILO for the second term.[5] He was made the Mayor of Kolkata in 2000, as a Trinamool Congress candidate. However, even after being the Mayor as a Trinamool leader, he decided not to resign as a Congress member of the Legislative Assembly.[6] As Mayor, he had dreamt of a 300 ft-high Kolkata gate on EM Bypass, which would have cost Rs. 20-crore.[7] However, the project could not see the daylight, as it could not obtain clearance from the Pollution Control Board.

Ahead of the civic polls in 2005, Mukherjee quit Trinamool Congress following differences with the party chief and returned to the Congress. In May 2010, he left the Indian National Congress again and rejoined Trinamool Congress, leaving the post of Pradesh Congress Working President.[8]

In 2011, after the Trinamool Congress won a majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made Minister for Public Health Engineering under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In December 2011, he was given the additional charge of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development ministry, and replaced Chandranath Sinha.[9]

In February 2012, he was made the All India President of the INTTUC, instead of Sobhandeb Chatterjee.[10] In 2019 Loksabha Elections he fought from Bankura and lost to Subhas Sarkar of BJP.

Under the leadership of Shri Subrata Mukherjee, the Public Health Engineering Department of the West Bengal Government launched some very innovative yet useful water treatment projects. The Water ATM was installed in Ekdalia Evergreen Club during the Durga Puja Festival of 2015, which would dispense 1 liter of Purified, chilled drinking water at Rs. 2. Seeing the success of the Water ATM during the pujas, the current Chief Minister of the state, Smt. Mamata Banerjee took up the project across the state. The Public Health Engineering Department also took up the project of providing packaged mineral water, Prandhara, in the same year.

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References
  1. "MSN". Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  2. Hindustan Times
  3. The Hindu
  4. West Bengal Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee joins Trinamool Congress: NATION, India Today; accessed 2 November 2015.
  5. today.intoday.in/story/denied-ilo-nomination-bengal-congress-leader-subrata-mukherjee-joins-mamatas-party/1/255285.html Denied ILO nomination, Bengal Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee joins Mamata's party: INDIASCOPE Archived 15 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine, India Today; accessed 2 November 2015.
  6. Profile, expressindia.indianexpress.com; accessed 2 November 2015.
  7. .Kolkata Gate may have to be shelved: Mayor - The Times of India
  8. Subrata Mukherjee joins Trinamool, hindustantimes.com; accessed 2 November 2015.
  9. Subrata new strongman in Didi's Cabinet, The Times of India; accessed 2 November 2015.
  10. Subrata replaces Sobhandeb as INTTUC head, The Times of India; accessed 2 November 2015.
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