Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011,the first woman to hold the office. Having served many times as a Union Cabinet Minister,Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress,and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She is often referred to as 'Didi'.
Abu Barkat Ataur Ghani Khan Choudhury,known as Barkatda to his supporters,was an Indian politician from West Bengal,India. Choudhury was a senior leader of Indian National Congress party. His home is in English Bazar,Malda,West Bengal
Dinesh Trivedi is an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and a former Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha (2009–2019) representing Barrackpore constituency of West Bengal. Prior to that he was Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha for two separate terms. He is the former Union Minister for Railways and the former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare under Manmohan Singh's cabinet.
Mukul Roy is an Indian politician from West Bengal belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress. He has also served as a Minister of State in the Shipping Ministry and later Ministry of Railways during the second UPA government. Before the creation of Trinamool Congress,he was a member of Indian National Congress. Between 2017 and 2021,Roy left Trinamool Congress to join Bharatiya Janata Party.
Abu Hena is an Indian National Congress politician,who was a cabinet minister and is a five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly.
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) is a registered unrecognized political party,that campaigns for the creation of a separate state Gorkhaland within India,out of districts in the north of West Bengal. The party was launched on 7 October 2007. The faction led by Binay Tamang,which was created out of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in 2017,merged into Gurung's GJM in 2021 after Tamang's resignation,following which he joined Trinamool Congress.
Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2021 and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandigram Assembly constituency since 2021 and from Contai South from 2006 to 2009. He previously served as the Minister of Transport from 2016 to 2020,Irrigation and Water resource from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of West Bengal. He was also a member of Lok Sabha from Tamluk from 2009 to 2016 and the chairperson of Jute Corporation of India from 2020 to 2021. He was a forner member of the Trinamool Congress from 1998 to 2020 and Indian National Congress from 1995 to 1998. He is the son of Sisir Adhikari,Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of State for Rural Development in the Manmohan Singh government.
Mausam Benazir Noor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women. She has served as President of Malda district TMC. She has also served as a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. It was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha.
Partha Chatterjee is a jailed indicted Indian political criminal. He earlier served as the Minister of Commerce and Industries and formerly served as the Education Minister of Government of West Bengal. He represented the Trinamool Congress. He also held the political office of Secretary General of the All India Trinamool Congress. In 2022,he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) scam in West Bengal,when massive stacks of cash were recovered from the house of one of his aides. He was then suspended from AITC and dismissed from the cabinet.
Shankar Chakravorty is an Indian politician and a trial lawyer from Balurghat,District-Dakshin Dinajpur,West Bengal,India. He is presently the Chairman(Cabinet Rank) of the Board of Directors of three state run PSUs namely Mackintosh Burn Ltd.,Westinghouse Saxby Farmer Ltd. and Britannia Engineering Ltd..
Purnendu Basu is an Indian politician and the former Minister for Agriculture in the Government of West Bengal. He was also an MLA,elected from the Rajarhat Gopalpur constituency in the 2011 and 2016 West Bengal state assembly election. He is currently Chairperson of West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education for Skill Development.
Madan Mitra is an Indian politician from West Bengal. Madan Mitra started his career with party Indian National Congress. He held many positions of Indian Youth Congress,the party's youth wing. In 1998,he joined All India Trinamool Congress party,founded by his colleague Mamata Banerjee. In 2011,he was elected to the legislative assembly and became a state minister. He was arrested for the Sarada chit fund conspiracy case and got bail after 22 months.
Pramatha Nath Roy,popularly known as P. N. Roy,was an Indian politician and was the Minister of State for Development &Planning in the Government of West Bengal. He was an MLA,elected from the Kaliaganj Assembly constituency in 1996,2001,2011 and 2016.
Manoj Chakraborty is an Indian politician and was Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA,elected from the Baharampur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.
Sunil Chandra Tirkey is an Indian politician and was the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA,elected from the Phansidewa constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.
Sabina Yeasmin is an Indian politician who has been serving as Cabinet Minister of State for Irrigation and Waterways,North Bengal Development in the Government of West Bengal. She is an MLA,elected from the Mothabari in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Gautam Sanyal is an Indian career civil servant who currently serves as Principal Secretary to Government of West Bengal,since June 2015. In June 2016,he was re-appointed as Principal Secretary and his tenure co-terminus with that of Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Chandrima Bhattacharya is an All India Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Finance,Health and Family Welfare,Land and Land Reforms,Refugee and Rehabilitation 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. She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012. She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Law and Judicial Department,Government of West Bengal in November 2012.
