Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury | |
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Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 2 May 2021 | |
Constituency | English Bazar,Malda |
Chairperson of National Institute for Gender Justice [1] | |
In office 2014–2016 | |
Chairman of Special Task Force (India) on Rape,Trafficking &Violence Against Women | |
In office December 2012 –December 2013 | |
President of NGO Sudinalay | |
In office 2010–2013 | |
National Advisor of National Legal Services Authority of the Ministry of Law and Justice (India) | |
In office 2008–2010 | |
Personal details | |
Born | [2] | 18 April 1964
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party [2] |
Spouse | R.K Mitra |
Residence(s) | South Baluchar,Malda,West Bengal [3] |
Education | Post Graduate M.A,University of North Bengal [3] |
Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury,popularly known as Nirbhaya Didi,is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party from West Bengal,India. She is also a social worker,women's rights activist and former journalist. [4] [5]
Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury hails from South Baluchar Battla in Malda district of West Bengal. She is a Post Graduate and did her Masters of Arts from North Bengal University in 1987. She is married to R. K. Mitra. [3]
In 2004 she took part in the launching of the National Legal Literacy Mission. [6] As of 2008 she served as national advisor of the National Legal Services Authority of the Ministry of Law and Justice. [6] As of 2010 she was the president of the NGO Sudinalay. [7]
Known as Nirbhaya Didi in Kolkata,she was involved with the process of rehabilitation of rape victims and providing toilets to women. [4] She chaired the special task force on rape,trafficking and violence against women set up by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the 2012 Delhi gang rape. [4] [8] [9] She resigned from this post in December 2013,amidst speculations that she could have run for parliament from the Malda seat as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate. [8]
Chaudhury was named as the candidate of the All India Trinamool Congress got 803 votes in the South Delhi Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 general election. [4] [5] In 2019,Lok Sabha election,she contested from Maldaha Dakshin seat with a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. [3] [2] But lost to Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury by a small margin. [10]
In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election,Chaudhury contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from English Bazar and won the seat by defeating her nearest rival from TMC. [11] [12]
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