Chandrima Bhattacharya | |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1955 |
Residence: | 57E Garcha Road, Kolkata |
Profession: | Politician |
Office1: | Minister of State (Independent Charge), Government of West Bengal |
1Blankname1: | Department |
1Namedata1: |
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2Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
2Namedata1: | Mamata Banerjee |
Governor1: | M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil (additional charge) Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose |
Term Start1: | 2012 |
Office2: | Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Term Start2: | 2 May 2021 |
Constituency2: | Dum Dum Uttar |
Predecessor2: | Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
Constituency3: | Kanthi Dakshin |
Term Start3: | 2016 |
Term End3: | 2021 |
Predecessor3: | Dibyendu Adhikari |
Successor3: | Arup Kumar Das |
Constituency4: | Dum Dum Uttar |
Term Start4: | 2011 |
Term End4: | 2016 |
Predecessor4: | Constituency established |
Successor4: | Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
Party: | Trinamool Congress |
Nationality: | ![]() |
Chandrima Bhattacharya[1] is an Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms, Refugee and Rehabilitation[2] of the Government of West Bengal. Previously, she acted as a minister in the first reshuffle of the ministry in January 2012 after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.[3] She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012.[4] She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Law and Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal in November 2012.[5]
Bhattacharya holds an LL.B (1976) degree from the University of Calcutta.[6] She was also a practising advocate in Calcutta High Court till the 2011 elections.[4]
She had been elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly on an Trinamool Congress ticket from Dum Dum Uttar in 2011 and 2021 and from Kanthi Dakshin in 2017.[7]