Tapan Sikdar Explained

Tapan Sikdar
Office:4th President of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal
Term Start:1997
Term End:1999
Predecessor:Sukumar Banerjee
Successor:Dr. Vishnukant Shastri
Term Start1:1991
Term End1:1995
Predecessor1:Dr. Vishnukant Shastri
Successor1:Asim Ghosh
Office2:Union Minister of State
Term Start2:13 October 1999
Term End2:10 May 2004
Suboffice2:Communications & Information Technology
Subterm2:13 October 1999 – 1 July 2002
Suboffice3:Chemicals and Fertilizers
Subterm3:1 July 2002 – 10 May 2004
Constituency4:Dum Dum, West Bengal
Office4:Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Term4:1998–2004
Predecessor4:Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee
Successor4:Amitava Nandy
Birth Date:20 September 1944
Death Date:2 June 2014 (aged 69)
Nationality:Indian
Alma Mater:Malda College (B.Com)

Tapan Sikdar (20 September 1944 – 2 June 2014) was a Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government of India and a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. He was born on 20 September 1944 in Jessore. His father Dr. D. N. Sikdar was a physician. His mother's name was Bela Rani Sikdar. He was member of 12 and 13 Lok Sabha representing Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal.

Tapan Shikdar died on 2 June 2014 in Delhi, AIIMS due to respiratory problems.[1]

Positions held

He was Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology (India). Later he was Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He unsuccessfully contested the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election where the All India Trinamool Congress candidate (who won and became the MP) got 458,988 votes whereas the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate got 438,510 votes) and he polled only 55,679 votes.

Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch

Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch is a forum of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dissidents in the Indian state of West Bengal. The forum was launched on 5 December 2004 by former Union Minister Tapan Sikdar.[2]

The organisation held its first convention in Kolkata on 8 March 2006.[3]

The forum is named after Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Sikdar maintains that the organisation is apolitical (in the sense that it is not a political party), and that he still sympathises with BJP.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Former-minister-Tapan-Sikdar-dies-at-AIIMS-at-70/articleshow/35938150.cms Former minister Tapan Sikdar dies at AIIMS in Delhi – The Times of India
  2. News: Dissident BJP leaders float parallel body in West Bengal . Deccan Herald . 1 . 2004-12-05 . 2006-08-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041213214155/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec052004/i12.asp . 13 December 2004.
  3. News: Sikdar organises first Mancha convention. https://web.archive.org/web/20060627012945/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=173000. dead. 27 June 2006. expressindia.com. 2006-03-09. 2006-08-15.
  4. News: Bangladeshi infiltration continues unabated: Tapan Sikdar. oneindia.com. 2006-03-03. 2006-08-15.