Rabindranath_Bhattacharjee

Rabindranath Bhattacharjee

Rabindranath Bhattacharjee

Indian politician

Rabindranath Bhattacharjee is an Indian politician.[1] He is also an MLA, elected from the Singur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Bhattacharjee better known as “Mastermoshai” which means teacher.[2]

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Political career

In 2001, Bhattacharjee won the Singur constituency as All India Trinamool Congress. He was instrumental in mobilizing land acquisition of a proposed Tata Nano factory in Singur. This was one of the causes which led to the defeat of the longest-serving democratically elected Communist government in the world, ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front government, a fact that was noted by the international media.[3] From May 2011 to November 2012, he was Minister for Agriculture in Mamata Banerjee ministry and was Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation November 2012 to May 2016.[4] In 2021 elections, All India Trinamool Congress denied a ticket for Bhattacharjee. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party and became the candidate from Singur.[5][6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Key Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 21 May 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Fumbling at the finish line". The India Today. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Defeat rocks India's elected communists - Features". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. [4]
    "TMC Turmoil: Miffed Mamata Banerjee likely to reshuffle her cabinet". The India Today. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Political musical chair continues in Bengal". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  6. [6]
    "14 years after protests against land acquistion, [sic] jobs and industrialisation are the poll pitch in Singur". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 11 April 2019.


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