| Protiva Mukherjee | |
| Birth Date: | 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Birbhum district, West Bengal, India |
| Death Date: | 2013 |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Occupation: | Politician |
Protiva Mukherjee (1934–2013) was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).
Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in Birbhum District.[1] After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.[1] She contested the Suri constituency seat in the 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).[2] She again contested the Suri seat in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).[3] As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in Suri.[4]
She was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Suri constituency seat in the 1969 and 1971 elections.[5] In the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election she got 27,517 votes (57.40%).[6] She held the post of Minister of State for Roads and Road Development in the second United Front government of West Bengal, formed in 1969.[7] [8] She was the only female minister in the West Bengal government at the time.[9] In the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election she got 12,060 votes (34.54% of the votes in Suri), defeating the candidates of CPI(M), Bangla Congress and Congress(I).[10] In the violent environment of the area during the polls, Mukherjee was the sole prominent local political leader that had not sought refugee elsewhere.[11]
Mukherjee lost the Suri seat in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, being defeated by the Congress(I) candidate in a straight contest. She got 20,894 votes (44.01%).[12] She again contested the Suri seat in the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in third place behind the Congress(I) and CPI(M) candidates.[13] She got 9,880 votes (19.50%).[13] She again finished in third place in Suri in the 1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, winning 4,797 votes (5.88%).[14]
Mukherjee died in 2013.[15]