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Manas Ranjan Bhunia
Manas Ranjan Bhunia. March 2023.
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
19 August 2017 – May 9, 2021
Preceded byDebabrata Bandyopadhyay
Succeeded bySushmita Dev
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development
Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 10, 2021
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
La. Ganesan (additional charge)
C. V. Ananda Bose
Preceded byDr. Soumen Kumar Mahapatra
Minister for Irrigation and Waterways & Small and Micro Industries and Textile
Government of West Bengal
In office
May 20, 2011 – September 25, 2012
GovernorM. K. Narayanan
Preceded bySubhas Naskar (Irrigation and Waterways)
Succeeded byMamata Banerjee
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
2021
Preceded byGeeta Bhunia
ConstituencySabang
In office
2006–2017
Preceded byTushar Kanti Laya
Succeeded byGeeta Bhunia
In office
1982–2001
Preceded byGouranga Samanta
Succeeded byTushar Kanti Laya
President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
In office
23 October 2008 – 17 January 2011
Preceded byPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Succeeded byPradip Bhattacharya
Personal details
BornManas Ranjan Bhunia
(1952-02-28) 28 February 1952 (age 72)
Sabang, West Bengal, India
Political partyTrinamool Congress (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress (1970–2016)
SpouseGita Rani Bhunia
ResidenceKolkata

Manas Ranjan Bhunia is an Indian politician and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after Indian National Congress took back the support from the state government. He joined the Trinamool Congress in 2016. He is the current Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development for the Government of West Bengal.

On 26 August 2015, he accused the West Bengal Police of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement. On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members. In March 2021, he again got the ticket to contest the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Sabang constituency and won.

References

  1. ^ "Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet". Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. TMC fields Manas Ranjan Bhunia's wife for Sabang Assembly by-election The Times of India. Retrieved 10 September 2021
  3. "BJP MLA booked for assaulting tehsildar". The Times of India.
  4. Press Trust of India. "Congress MLA Manas Bhuniya starts indefinite fast". India.com.
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