Chandrima Bhattacharya | |
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| Minister of State (Independent Charge), Government of West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 2012 | |
| Governor | M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil (additional charge) Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose |
| Department |
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| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
| Constituency | Dum Dum Uttar |
| In office 2016–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Dibyendu Adhikari |
| Succeeded by | Arup Kumar Das |
| Constituency | Kanthi Dakshin |
| In office 2011–2016 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
| Constituency | Dum Dum Uttar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 December 1955 |
| Nationality | |
| Political party | Trinamool Congress |
| Residence(s) | 57E Garcha Road,Kolkata |
| Profession | Politician |
Chandrima Bhattacharya [1] is an Trinamool Congress politician in India and the current Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge),Health and Family Welfare,Land and Land Reforms,Refugee and Rehabilitation [2] 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. [3] She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012. [4] She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Law and Judicial Department,Government of West Bengal in November 2012. [5]
Bhattacharya holds an LL.B (1976) degree from the University of Calcutta. [6] She was also a practising advocate in Calcutta High Court till the 2011 elections. [4]
She had been elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly on an Trinamool Congress ticket from Dum Dum Uttar in 2011 and 2021 and from Kanthi Dakshin in 2017. [7]