Pratima Mondal | |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1966 |
Birth Place: | Gaur Daha, Canning South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start1: | 2014 |
Constituency1: | Jaynagar |
Predecessor1: | Tarun Mandal |
Citizenship: | ![]() |
Nationality: | Indian |
Party: | Trinamool Congress |
Spouse: | Narayan Chandra Mondal |
Children: | 1 Son & 1 Daughter |
Mother: | Uma Naskar |
Father: | Gobinda Chandra Naskar |
Residence: | Kolkata |
Education: | M.A., B.Ed. |
Alma Mater: | University of Calcutta |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | WBCS Officer |
Pratima Mondal (née Naskar; born 16 February 1966) is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Parliament for Jaynagar since 2014. Before she joined politics she was a WBCS officer. Her father Gobinda Chandra Naskar was also a former MP from Bangaon. She belongs to the Trinamool Congress.[1] [2] [3]
Pratima Mondal was born on 16 February 1966, to a Bengali Hindu family in a small village Gaur Daha in Banshra. She is daughter of the former Member of Parliament, Gobinda Chandra Naskar. Pratima Mondal is a postgraduate of the University of Calcutta. She was a WBCS officer before entering politics.[4] [5] [6]
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the All India Trinamool Congress nominated Pratima Mondal from the Jaynagar Lok Sabha constituency. She was elected with 4,94,746 votes, which was 41.71% of the votes cast. She defeated her nearest rival Subhas Naskar of the Revolutionary Socialist Party by 1,08,384 votes.[7] [8]