Pratima Bhoumik

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Pratima Bhoumik
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Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment
Assumed office
7 July 2021
Residence(s) Agartala, Tripura, India
Alma mater Women's College, Agartala
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Pratima Bhoumik (born 28 May 1969) is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Second Modi ministry since 7 July 2021. [1] She is the first-ever resident from Tripura to become a minister in the union cabinet. [2] In 2019, she was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party [3] having defeated sitting MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress candidate Subal Bhowmick by a huge margin. She was also elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 2023 from the Dhanpur Assembly constituency, but resigned from the position only a few days later to retain her Lok Sabha membership and ministerial berth. Since 2016, she has also been a State General Secretary of the BJP Tripura unit.

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As party whip of Lok Sabha

Smt. Pratima Bhoumik has expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for including her in the party's Lok Sabha whip list. [4]

As a Member of Parliament

Pratima Bhoumik was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, from Tripura West. [5] After the result was formally declared, in an interview with IANS, the 50-year-old science graduate, Pratima Bhowmik, said: "I would work for the all-round development of the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah's development mantra and vision are our future course of action for the welfare of the people." [ citation needed ]

"To fulfill Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's vision to make Tripura a model state, we would all together work to achieve the dream," Bhowmik, General Secretary of the BJP's state unit, told. [ citation needed ]

Bhowmik, securing 5,73,532 votes (51.77 percent of the valid votes polled) won the Tripura West seat defeating her Congress rival Subal Bhowmik by a margin of 3,05,689 votes, would be the second Lok Sabha member from Tripura after Congress' Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi, also former Tripura minister, who won in 1991. [ citation needed ]

Lok Sabha Standing Committee

Contribution of the first salary

Pratima Bhowmik, the Lok Sabha MP from Tripura West parliamentary constituency, donated Rs 1,00,000 from her first month's salary for Assam flood relief. At least 67 people have died and 33,55,837 have been affected in the deluge that has inundated over 2,000 villages in 17 districts of Assam. [6] [7] [8]

Union Minister

She became Minister of State Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened. [9] She became first Central Minister from Tripura. [10]

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