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Indian politician (born 1970)

Dipali Biswas
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
2016–2021
Preceded bySushil Chandra Roy
Succeeded byChinmoy Deb Barman
ConstituencyGazole
Personal details
Born (1970-08-02) 2 August 1970 (age 54)
NationalityIndian
Political partyTrinamool Congress (2018–2020) (2024-Till now)
Other political
affiliations
OccupationPolitician

Dipali Biswas (born 2 August 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. She was elected as the representative of the Gazole constituency in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In 2016, she switched her party to Trinamool Congress and in 2020, she switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Personal life

Dipali Biswas is married to Ranjit Biswas and a resident of Gazole Town in the district of Malda, West Bengal. She was educated at the Bardanga Raghunath High School and became an Integrated Child Development Services worker.

Political career

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Dipali Biswas was nominated to contest from the Gazole constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The election resulted in Biswas emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 20,000 votes and polling at 43.47% of the votes cast against 32.95% of the votes cast in favor of Sushil Chandra Roy of the Trinamool Congress and 14.51% of the votes cast in favor of Sudhanshu Sarkar of the BJP.

In 2018, she joined the Trinamool Congress party, and on 19 December 2020, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

References

  1. "Elected Members". West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
  2. ^ "West Bangal General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Dipali Biswas". myneta.info. Association for Democratic Reforms. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017.
  4. "Dipali Biswas Affidavit" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 November 2020.
  5. Sen, Megna (19 December 2020). "Mamata's former aide Suvendu Adhikari joins BJP at Amit Shah's Midnapore rally". Livemint. Archived from the original on 19 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. "Suvendu Adhikari ends all speculation, joins BJP, delivers jolt to Mamata and TMC". India Today. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded bySushil Chandra Roy (INC) Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
from Gazole (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
2016– 		Incumbent
Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Jalpaiguri division
Presidency division MLAs Malda division MLAs
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