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Sankar Chakraborty | |
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Minister of Public Works Department | |
In office 2013–2016 | |
Succeeded by | Aroop Biswas |
MLA | |
In office 2011–2016 | |
Preceded by | Biswanath Chowdhury |
Succeeded by | Biswanath Chowdhury |
Constituency | Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1945 Balurghat |
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Alma mater | University of Calcutta (M.Com),(L.L.B) |
Shankar Chakravorty (alternate spelling:Sankar Chakraborty) is an Indian politician and a trial lawyer from Balurghat,District-Dakshin Dinajpur,West Bengal,India. He is presently the chairman (cabinet rank) [1] of the board of directors of three state run PSUs namely Mackintosh Burn Ltd.,Westinghouse Saxby Farmer Ltd. and Britannia Engineering Ltd. [2]
He was formerly the vice president of the state committee of All India Trinamool Congress. [3]
He was the minister in charge of P.W.D.,Dept. of Cooperation,Dept. of Renewable Energy,Dept. of Correctional Administration in the Council of Ministers of the Government of West Bengal in various phases. [4] [5] He was an MLA,elected from the Balurghat constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. [6] In 2016,he closely lost the same position. He was formerly a member of the board of administrators of Balurghat Municipality. [7]
He was previously the chairman and president of the Dakshin Dinajpur district committee of All India Trinamool Congress. [8] He was also a member of the Board of Administrators of Balurghat Municipality. [9]
Shankar Chakravorty was born in 1945. He is the son of Byomkesh Chakravorti,who was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council. He did his schooling from Balurghat High School. He holds a post-graduate degree in commerce and a degree in law from the University of Calcutta. [10]
He was appointed special public prosecutor in the Rainagar multiple murder case. [11] The incident happened on July 31,1987 at Rainagar village near Balurghat town. Incidentally,the district court awarded death penalty to the perpetrators. This was later upheld by the High Court. [12] [13]
As a lawyer,Shankar Chakravorty was actively associated with a case in which Mamata Banerjee herself appeared as a lawyer in Balurghat Court in order to get bail for a group of students who were detained by the police. Mamata Banerjee,Shankar Chakravorty,Biplab Mitra,Subash Chaki (lawyer and politician) and a few other lawyers were instrumental in this case where the students were finally granted bail by the Honourable Court. Mamata Banerjee has chronicled this whole incident in her book Upalabdhi. [14]