Mamata Thakur | |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from West Bengal |
Term Start: | 3 April 2024 |
Predecessor: | Subhasish Chakraborty |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from West Bengal |
Constituency1: | Bangaon |
Term Start1: | 16 February 2015 |
Term End1: | 23 May 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Kapil Krishna Thakur |
Successor1: | Shantanu Thakur |
Birth Place: | Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India |
Party: | Trinamool Congress |
Profession: | Social worker Politician |
Mamata Thakur (born 15 May 1967), is an Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, and belongs to the Trinamool Congress. She was elected to the Lok Sabha in a 2015 by-election, representing Bangaon from the TMC.[1] She came second in 2019 election, losing to BJP's candidate.
Mamata Thakur was nominated as Trinamool Congress party's candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in 2024.[2]
From March 2015 she served as a member of the Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment; the term ended when that Lok Sabha was dissolved in 2019. She is a Matua Maha religious mother of the Matua Mahasangha community. She lives in the town of Thakurnagar.