Swapan Banerjee

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Swapan Banerjee
CPI West Bengal State Secretary
Assumed office
February 2018
Preceded by Prabodh Panda [1]
Personal details
Political party Communist Party of India
Residence Baranagar, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India

Swapan Banerjee is the State Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) in West Bengal. [2] He is also a member of the National Executive of Communist Party of India. [3]

Political career

He was elected the State Secretary of CPI in West Bengal after the sudden death of veteran communist leader and former Member of Parliament Prabodh Panda in February 2018. [4] He is also a member of the National Executive of Communist Party of India since the Kollam party congress which was held in April 2018. [5] He was announced a star campaigner of CPI in the 2019 Indian Parliament Election on behalf of the CPI National Council. [6]

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