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.