Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was an Indian communist politician and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),who served as the 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. In a political career over five decades,he became one of the senior leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) during his regime.
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata,the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. The legislative assembly comprises 294 Members of Legislative Assembly,all directly elected from single-seat constituencies. Its term is five years,unless sooner dissolved.
Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician,who is the incumbent State Secretary in West Bengal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha,representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier,he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation,in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency,and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress. Mohammed Salim is contesting the 2024 Indian general election as the Left Front candidate from the Murshidabad.
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya is an Indian politician and lawyer. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is serving as the CPI(M) parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha since 3 July 2024. He served as Mayor of Kolkata from 2005 to 2010,heading the Kolkata Municipal Corporation,led by the Left Front in the state of West Bengal.
Saugata Roy is an Indian politician of Trinamool Congress and also a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament representing the Dum Dum constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha. He has also served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the Manmohan Singh government.
Suvendu Adhikari is an Indian politician from 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.
Chakdaha Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bangaon Uttar is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Panihati Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Jadavpur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency in the Indian state of West Bengal which lies mostly in Kolkata district,while a fraction of it is in South 24 Parganas district.
Belgachia East Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sealdah Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Manish Gupta is an Indian politician who was the Minister for Power in the Government of West Bengal. He was a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. In the 2011 Vidhan Sabha election of West Bengal he historically defeated his former boss- the then incumbent Chief Minister of West Bengal,Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,who remained the MLA of this constituency for twenty-four years by a huge margin of 16684 votes. He served under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal before he retired as an IAS officer. He also worked as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal under Chief Minister Jyoti Basu - a time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was the Deputy Chief Minister.
Locket Chatterjee is an Indian actress,politician and former Member of Parliament for Hooghly,from West Bengal,India. She is also a classical dancer. She completed her training in Bharat Natyam,Kathakali,Manipuri and Creative,but is better known as an actress,in Tollywood. Previously,she was the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha,the women's wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal. Now she is a General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party,West Bengal.
Abhijit Mukherjee is an Indian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Mimi Chakraborty is an Indian actress,singer and politician. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema and television. Her debut film was Bapi Bari Jaa in which she played the female lead,Dola. She was listed as the most desirable woman in the Calcutta Times list of Most Desirable Women 2016 and 2020.
Sankar Gupta was an Indian Communist leader. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal from Jadavpur constituency in 1982.
Saayoni Ghosh is an Indian Bengali film and television actress currently serving as a Member of Parliament representing Jadavpur parliamentary constituency. She is also a singer and a politician. Her acting debut was with a telefilm Ichhe Dana,and her first appearance on the big screen was with a short role in the film Notobor Notout. She then shared the screen with some veteran actors in Raj Chakraborty's Shotru,and later played a carefree journalist role in Raj Chakraborty's daily serial Proloy Asche. She has played lead roles in the films Kanamachi,Antaraal,Ekla Cholo,Amar sahor,Bitnoon,Mayer Biye,Rajkahini. She came into limelight in politics in January 2021. She joined Trinamool Congress on 24 February 2021.
Bharatiya Janata Party,West Bengal is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of West Bengal. The party's headquarters is located in Kolkata,the capital of the state. Sukanta Majumdar is currently appointed as the president of BJP,West Bengal.
Arup Chakraborty is an Indian politician from West Bengal. A member of Trinamool Congress,he is serving as member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Taldangra constituency in Bankura since 2021. He has also been elected as Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha for Bankura Constituency in 2024 General Elections,by defeating BJP's ex - union minister of state Subhas Sarkar.
