Tapasi Mondal Explained

Office1:Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency1:Haldia
Termstart1:2016
Party:Bharatiya Janata Party (2020-present)
Birth Date:1972 3, df=yes
Otherparty:Communist Party of India (Marxist) (until 2020)

Tapasi Mondal (born 1 March 1972[1]) is an Indian politician and member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly representing Haldia constituency from 2016.[2] She was elected as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member, but later in 2020 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.[3]

Personal life

Mondal is married to Arjun Kumar Mondal and is a resident of Durgachak town in the district of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal.[4] [5] She received her education at the Sutahata Labanyaprava Balika Vidyalya.

Political career

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Tapasi Mondal was nominated to contest as the candidate of the Left Front coalition in West Bengal from the Haldia constituency of Purba Medinipur district.[6] Her primary opponent in the election was Madhurima Mandal who was the candidate of the Trinamool Congress.[7] The election resulted in Tapasi Mondal emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 21,000 votes and polling at 50.17% of the votes cast against 39.53% of the votes cast in favor of Madhurima Mandal. In December 2020, she was expelled from her party after she declared that she intended to join the Bharatiya Janata Party along with a number of Trinamool Congress legislators.[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elected Members. West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
  2. Web site: West Bangal General Legislative Election 2016. Election Commission of India.
  3. Web site: Ganguli. Panchali. 18 December 2020. CPIM MLA Tapasi Mondal leaves LF to join BJP. 7 February 2021. Kolkata Today. en-US.
  4. Web site: Mandal. Ananda. 14 August 2018. কালি লাগিয়েই ফিরলেন তাপসী. Tapasi returned with ink. 2020-11-15. Ananda Bazar Patrika. bn.
  5. Web site: Tapasi Mondal. myneta.info. Association for Democratic Reforms.
  6. Web site: Bose. Pratim Ranjan. Law. Abhishek. TMC embarrassed as 7 ministers lose. 2020-11-14. Business Line. The Hindu Group. en.
  7. Web site: Roy. Esha. Ali. Arshad. Ghoshal. Anuraddha. 2016-05-06. West Bengal polls end, not the complaints. 2020-11-14. The Indian Express. en.
  8. Web site: Kundu. Indrajit. 18 December 2020. Now, CPIM MLA says she will join BJP at Amit Shah rally on Saturday. 2020-12-19. India Today. en.
  9. Web site: Suvendu Adhikari ends all speculation, joins BJP, delivers jolt to Mamata and TMC . India Today . 19 December 2020.