Becharam Manna

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{{short description|Indian Politician}}
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| office1 = [[Minister of State|Minister of State (Independent Charge)]], [[Department of Labour (West Bengal)|Labour]]<br>[[Government of West Bengal]]
| term_start1 = 10 May 2021
| governor1 = [[Jagdeep Dhankhar]]
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| predecessor1= [[Moloy Ghatak]]
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| constituency3 = [[Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Haripal]]
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| term_start3 = 13 May 2011
| term_end3 = 2 May 2021
| predecessor3 = Bharati Mukherjee, CPI(M)
| successor3 = Karabi Manna
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| office2 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of]] [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency2 = [[Singur]]
| term_start2 = 2 May 2021
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| predecessor2 = [[Rabindranath Bhattacharjee]]
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| party = [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]
| spouse = Karabi Manna
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'''Becharam Manna''' is an Indian politician representing [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]].
He won the [[Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Haripal]] seat by a margin of 22,000 votes, in the [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011 West Bengal state assembly elections]]. The [[Singur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Singur]] seat was retained by the sitting Trinamool Congress MLA, Rabindranath Bhattacharya.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25196.htm|title = Haripal|work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |accessdate = 2011-05-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS25188.htm|title = Singur|work = Assembly Elections May 2011 Results| publisher = Election Commission of India |accessdate = 2011-05-19 }}</ref> He also became Minister of State of the Agriculture Department, [[Government of West Bengal]] for few days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/Singur-MLA-shares-dais-with-Becharam-Manna/articleshow/18963049.cms|title=Singur MLA shares dais with Becharam Manna|date=March 14, 2013|website=timesofindia.com|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref>

He was the first person to challenge the Tata group at Singur, when the [[Singur Tata Nano controversy|Nano plant]] was being constructed.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ndtv.com/article/assembly-polls/bengal-polls-singur-s-nano-politics-97547 |title = Bengal polls: Singur's 'Nano' politics | publisher = NDTV 10 April 2011 |accessdate = 2011-05-19 }}</ref> He is the convener of Krishi Jami Raksha Samiti, a group agitating for the protection of agricultural land.<ref name=manna>{{cite news| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-10-03/india/27907687_1_tata-project-singur-becharam-manna | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120606144200/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-10-03/india/27907687_1_tata-project-singur-becharam-manna | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-06-06 |title = The world of Becharam Manna |accessdate = 2011-05-19 | work = [[The Times of India]] |date=2008-10-03}}</ref> At [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021 Elections]] in [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]], he was made a candidate from [[Singur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Singur]] and his wife from his constituency [[Haripal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Haripal]]. They both win in the election. After the election [[Mamata Banerjee|Mamta Banarjee]] made him [[Third Banerjee ministry|Minister of State (Independent Charge)]] for [[Department of Labour (West Bengal)]]

==Background==
Becharam Manna belongs to a poor family of sharecroppers living at Ratanpur. His Education qualification is class 7 failed. He worked in a jute mill for some time.<ref name=manna/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://twocircles.net/2011apr28/87_criminal_candidates_bengal_polls_fourth_fifth_phases.html |title = 87 'criminal' candidates in Bengal polls' fourth, fifth phases| publisher =TwoCircles.net |accessdate = 2011-05-19 }}</ref> After winning in the elections, he confirmed that at Singur land had been “forcibly taken from nearly 2,900 villagers”.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/singur-hopes-to-get-back-400-acres-by-uttam-dutta-7722/print |title = Singur hopes to get back 400 acres by Uttam Dutta | publisher = im4change|accessdate = 2011-05-19 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External Links==
*{{Twitter|mlabecharam}}

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