Tapas Banerjee | |
Office: | Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Term Start: | 6 May 2021 |
Predecessor: | Runu Dutta |
Constituency: | Raniganj |
Constituency1: | Asansol Dakshin |
Term Start1: | 13 May 2011 |
Term End1: | 4 May 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Amitava Mukhopadhyay |
Successor1: | Agnimitra Paul |
Party: | All India Trinamool Congress |
Education: | B.Com & LLB |
Alma Mater: | University of Calcutta |
Profession: | Politician, lawyer |
Mawards: | is not set --> |
Termend2: | 2001 |
Termstart2: | 1996 |
Constituency2: | Asansol Uttar |
Successor2: | Kalyan Banerjee |
Predecessor2: | Goutam Roy Choudhury |
Tapas Banerjee is an Indian advocate and politician from West Bengal belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly representing Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from 2011 to 2021.
He graduated with B.Com. & LLB from University of Calcutta.[1] He was elected as a member the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Asansol Dakshin in 2011 and 2016.[2] [3]
Tapas Banerjee won Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the 2011 assembly elections. Banerjee defeated his nearest contender, Ashok Kumar Mukherjee of CPI(M), with a margin of 28,541 votes. Banerjee received 89,645 votes, while the runner-up Mukherjee, got 61,104. The voter turnout in the election was 78.69%.[4]