Paresh Chandra Adhikary

Paresh Chandra Adhikary is an Indian politician from AITC. In May 2021, he was elected as the member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Mekliganj[2][3]

Paresh Chandra Adhikari
Minister of State
Government of West Bengal
Assumed office
10 May 2021
MinisterBratya Basu
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Department School and Higher Education
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2 May 2021
Preceded byArghya Roy Pradhan
ConstituencyMekliganj
In office
2001–2016
Preceded byRamesh Roy
Succeeded byArghya Roy Pradhan
In office
1991–1996
Preceded bySada Kanta Roy
Succeeded byRamesh Roy
Personal details
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (from 2018)
Other political
affiliations
All India Forward Bloc (till 2018)[1]
Residence(s)Mekliganj, Cooch Behar district, West Bengal
Alma materMekhliganj High School
ProfessionPolitician

Career

Adhikari is from Mekliganj, Cooch Behar district. His father's name is Dutta Narayan Adhikary.[4] He passed Higher Secondary Examination from Mekhliganj High School, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in 1970. Paresh Chandra Adhikari became MLA for the first time in 1991 after winning the Forward Bloc ticket. Although he lost the 1996 assembly elections, he continued to win for the Forward Bloc in 2001, 2006 and 2011. He was the Acting Food Minister of the Left Front government in West Bengal from 2006-2011. In 2019, he left the Forward Bloc and joined the Trinamool Congress. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool contested from Kochbihar Lok Sabha constituency on a Trinamul Congress ticket. But Paresh Chandra Adhikari lost to BJP candidate Nishith Pramanik. In the 2021 assembly elections, Paresh chandra Adhikary won the Mekhliganj assembly seat again and became the MLA and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made Paresh Chandra Adhikari the state minister for school education in the state.

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