Subhas Naskar | |
Birth Date: | 1952 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Basanti, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal |
Office1: | Deputy Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal |
Term Start1: | 13 May 2011 |
Term End1: | 19 May 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury |
Successor1: | Dr. Sujan Chakraborty |
Leader1: | Surjya Kanta Mishra |
Office2: | MLA |
Term Start2: | 1982 |
Term End2: | 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Kalipada Burman |
Successor2: | Gobinda Chandra Naskar |
Constituency2: | Basanti |
Office: | Minister for Irrigation & Waterways |
Term Start: | 2005 |
Term End: | 2011 |
Predecessor: | Amarendralal Roy |
Successor: | Manas Bhunia |
Governor: | Viren J. Shah Gopalkrishna Gandhi M.K. Narayanan |
Nationality: | Indian |
Party: | RSP |
Residence: | Vill & PO Kumrakhali, Basanti |
Alma Mater: | University of Calcutta (B.A.) |
Profession: | Politician, Teacher, social worker |
Subhas Naskar is an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Socialist Party. He served as Irrigation Minister in the Left Front government of West Bengal. He has won the Basanti Legislative Assembly seat in the 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections.[1] After the 2011 assembly election he was elected as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[2]
Subhas Naskar's ancestral house at Basanti was attacked during panchayat elections in 2008 and a bomb was allegedly thrown by CPI(M) supporters, fatally injuring his nephew's wife.[3] [4]
The son of the late Prajapati Naskar, he is a graduate and a former school teacher.[5]