| Jitendra Chaudhury | |
| Birth Date: | 27 June 1958[1] |
| Birth Place: | Tripura, India |
| Office1: | Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Tripura State Committee |
| Predecessor1: | Goutam Das |
| Office: | Leader of Opposition in the Tripura Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start: | 6 March 2024 |
| Term End: | Incumbent |
| Predecessor: | Animesh Debbarma |
| Office2: | Member of the Lok Sabha for Tripura East |
| Term Start2: | 2014 |
| Term End2: | 2019 |
| Predecessor2: | Bajuban Reang |
| Successor2: | Rebati Tripura |
| Office3: | Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura |
| Constituency4: | Manu (ST) |
| Term Start4: | 1993 |
| Term End4: | 2014 |
| Predecessor4: | Angju Mog |
| Successor4: | Pravat Chowdhury |
| Constituency3: | Sabroom |
| Term Start3: | 2 March 2023 |
| Predecessor3: | Sankar Roy |
| Office5: | Minister for Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports,Govt of Tripura |
| Term Start5: | 1993 |
| Term End5: | 2014 |
| Party: | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Spouse: | Manisha Debbarma |
| Relatives: | 1 |
Jitendra Chaudhury (born 27 June 1958) is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serving as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom. Previously, he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) before conceding defeat against Rebati Tripura of BJP in 2019.[2] [3]
Jitendra Choudhury is the current Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Tripura State Committee.[4] [5] [6] At the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 2018, he was elected as a member of the central committee. He is the national Chairperson of Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM).[7]
In 1993, Choudhury was elected from Manu ST constituency as CPI(M) candidate for Tripura Legislative Assembly election and he won the election. He was the Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports from 1993 to 1998 in Dasarath Deb Ministry. He was also Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports in Manik Sarkar Ministry from 1998 to 2014. In 2014 Indian general election he won from Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) and became Member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tripura.[8] [9] However in the 2019 Indian general election, he lost to Rebati Tripura. In the 2023 Tripura election, he won from the constituency of Sabroom.
| Election | Year | Party | Constituency | Opponent | Result | Margin | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loksabha | 2014 | Tripura East | Sachitra Debbarma | |||||||||||
| 2019 | Rebati Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Tripura Legislative Assembly | 1983 | Manu | Angju Mog | |||||||||||
| 1988 | Angju Mog | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | Angju Mog | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Joykishore Tripura | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | Chandan Tripura | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | Thaikhai Mog | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | Chandi Charan Tripura | |||||||||||||
| 2023 | Sabroom | Sankar Roy | ||||||||||||