Susmita Bauri | |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1975 |
Birth Place: | Khatra, Bankura district |
Residence: | Bankura |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Bishnupur |
Term: | 2004-2014 |
Predecessor: | Sandhya Bauri |
Successor: | Saumitra Khan |
Spouse: | Gurucharan Bhattacharya |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Susmita Bauri (born 5 January 1975) is an Indian politician and had been elected on a CPI(M) ticket from the Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Indian state of West Bengal to the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha.[1]
Daughter of Nimai Charan Bauri and Sandhya Bauri, she is a law graduate or LL.B from Hazra Law College of University of Calcutta. As an advocate she provides free legal aid to poor people, especially illiterate women.[2] She belongs to the Bauri community. Her mother, Sandhya Bauri, was a three-time member of Lok Sabha from the same constituency.[3]
In the 14th Lok Sabha she was a member of the Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment and the Standing Committee on Energy. In the 15th Lok Sabha she was a member of the Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers and the Committee on Absence of Members from Sitting of the House.[2]