Manas Bhunia Explained

Manas Bhunia
Birth Name:Manas Ranjan Bhunia
Birth Date:28 February 1952
Birth Place:Sabang, West Bengal, India
Residence:Kolkata
Office1:Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development
Government of West Bengal
Term Start1:May 10, 2021
Predecessor1:Somen Mahapatra
Office2:Minister for Irrigation and Waterways & Small and Micro Industries and Textile
Government of West Bengal
Term Start2:May 20, 2011
Term End2:September 25, 2012
Predecessor2:Subhas Naskar (Irrigation and Waterways)
Successor2:Mamata Banerjee
Office:Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Term Start:19 August 2017
Term End:May 9, 2021
Predecessor:Debabrata Bandyopadhyay
Successor:Sushmita Dev
Constituency:West Bengal
Governor2:M. K. Narayanan
Office4:Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Term Start4:2021
Constituency4:Sabang
Predecessor4:Geeta Bhunia
Term Start5:2006
Term End5:2017
Predecessor5:Tushar Kanti Laya
Successor5:Geeta Bhunia
Term Start6:1982
Term End6:2001
Predecessor6:Gouranga Samanta
Successor6:Tushar Kanti Laya
Office7:President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
Term Start7:23 October 2008
Term End7:17 January 2011
Predecessor7:Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Successor7:Pradip Bhattacharya
Party:All India Trinamool Congress (2016–present)
Otherparty:Indian National Congress (1970–2016)
Spouse:Gita Rani Bhunia[1]

Manas Ranjan Bhunia is an Indian politician and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the Government of West Bengal.[2] He is also an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after I.N.C. took back the support from the state government. He joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 2016. He is the current Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development for the Government of West Bengal.

On 26 August 2015, he accused West Bengal police forces of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement.[3] On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members.[4] In March 2021, he again got the ticket to contest the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Sabang constituency and won.

Notes and References

  1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/tmc-fields-manas-ranjan-bhunias-wife-for-sabang-assembly-byelection/articleshow/61812726.cms TMC fields Manas Ranjan Bhunia's wife for Sabang Assembly by-election
  2. Web site: Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet. 22 May 2011. Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213008/http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view. 5 October 2011.
  3. Web site: BJP MLA booked for assaulting tehsildar. The Times of India.
  4. Web site: Congress MLA Manas Bhuniya starts indefinite fast. Press Trust of India. India.com.