Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
The Minister of State for Railways, Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury addressing at the presentation of the National Awards for Outstanding Service in Railways, in Mumbai on April 16, 2013 (cropped).png
Chowdhury in 2013
Leader Of the Indian National Congress in
Lok Sabha
Assumed office
18 July 2021
Children2
Residence(s) Baharampur, Murshidabad, West Bengal
ProfessionSocial worker, Politician
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician serving as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha since 2021 and from 2019 to 2021 and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore since 1999. [1] He is also the current president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee following the demise of Somendra Nath Mitra since 2020 and from 2014 to 2018, Chairperson of Public Accounts Committee (India) since 2019, Minister of State of Railways from 2012 to 2014 and the member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999. [2]

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Personal life

Chowdhury was born on 2 April 1956 to Niranjan and Saroja Bala Chowdhury at Berhampore in Murshidabad district, West Bengal. He studied at I.C. Institute in Berhampore. [3]

Chowdhury married Arpita Chowdhury on 15 September 1987. [4] They had a daughter, Shreyashi, who died in October 2006. [5] [6] On 9 January 2019, Arpita died. [7] He later married Atashi C Chowdhury. [3] [8]

Political career

Chowdhury joined the Indian National Congress party during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi. In 1991, he contested the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from Nabagram constituency. During the polling, he was chased by 300 supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and held hostage by its candidate. Chowdhury lost by a margin of 1,401 votes. In 1996, he was elected from the same constituency. [9] Chowdhury polled 76,852 votes and won by a margin of approximately 20,329 votes. [10]

Chowdhury contested the 1999 Indian general election from Berhampore constituency. He won by a margin of 95,391 votes [9] and defeated his nearest rival, the sitting MP Pramothes Mukherjee of Revolutionary Socialist Party. [11] Following his success, he was made the Congress president for the Murshidabad district. [9] Between 1999 and 2000, he served as a member of Committee on Information Technology, Railway Convention Committee and Committee to Review the Rate of Dividend Payable by the Railway Undertaking to the General Revenues. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as a member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of External Affairs. [3] In 2003, under Chowdhury's leadership, the Congress party won 23 out of 33 zilla parishad seats, 13 out of 26 panchayat samitis and 104 out of 254 village councils in Murshidabad. [9]

On 28 October 2012 he was inducted in the Union Ministry under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as Minister of State for Railways. [12]

Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on 29 October 2012 Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on October 29, 2012.jpg
Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on 29 October 2012

He became the president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress on 10 February 2014. [13]

Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha

In June 2019, he was selected as Congress leader in Lok Sabha. According to a report in NDTV, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was given the job after the party failed to convince Rahul Gandhi. [14] On 26 July 2019, Chowdhury was appointed the chairman of Seventeenth Lok Sabha Committee on Public Accounts. The Public Accounts Committee is now constituted every year under Rule 308 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha. [15]

After passing away of Somen Mitra, the then president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, on 9 September 2020, Chowdhury was appointed the president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee. [16]

On 12 January 2022, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, Anand Sharma, asking the committee to discuss the "Violative Software Application 'Tek Fog'", in their next meeting. [17]

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Preceded by Leader of the Opposition
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