Ujjal Biswas | |
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Minister of Science, Technology & Bio-technology Government of West Bengal | |
Assumed office 3 August 2022 | |
Governor | C .V. Ananda Bose |
Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
Preceded by | Ratna De (Nag) |
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office May 13,2011 | |
Constituency | Krishnanagar Dakshin |
Personal details | |
Born | Krishnanagar,Nadia | 17 June 1954
Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Residence | Krishnanagar |
Ujjal Biswas is an Indian politician and the present Minister of the Science,Technology and Bio-Technology department in the Government of West Bengal. [1] Till 2022,he was the minister for correctional administration. He is also an MLA,elected from the Krishnanagar Dakshin constituency of Nadia district in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. [2] [3] [4]
Ujjal Biswas is from a Mahishya family of freedom fighters who participated in various agitations against the British rule such as Indigo revolt leader Digambar Biswas under whose leadership the indigo farmers protested against the European Indigo planters.
Anushilan Samiti revolutionary Basanta Kumar Biswas and also,freedom fighter Manmathanath Biswas also happen to be from the same family. [5]
Nadia is a district in the state of West Bengal,India. It borders Bangladesh to the east,North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south,Purba Bardhaman to the west,and Murshidabad to the north.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011,the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister,Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress,and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi.
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