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{{Short description|Indian athlete and politician (born 1969)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image        = Jyotirmoyee Sikdar join BJP.jpg
| name         = Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
| caption      = Sikdar Join [[Bharatiya Janata party|BJP]]
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1969|12|11|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Nadia, West Bengal]]
| residence    = [[Kolkata]]
| office       = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| term_start   = 2004
| term_end     = 2009
| predecessor  = [[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]
| successor    = [[Tapas Paul]]
| constituency = [[Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar]]
| party        = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (2020)
| spouse       = {{Marriage|Avtar Singh|1994}}
| children     = 1
| website      = 
| footnotes    = 
| date         = 17 September
| year         = 2006
| source       = https://web.archive.org/web/20060622230258/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4185
| otherparty   = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (2004-2009)
}}
[[File:Jyotirmoyee Sikdar CPIM.jpg|thumb|Sikdar as MP candidate of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] ]]
'''Jyotirmoyee Sikdar''' (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian politician and former sportswoman. She served as [[Member of Parliament, India|member of parliament]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] from the [[Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnagar constituency]] in the [[14th Lok Sabha]]. She was defeated in the [[2009 Indian general election in West Bengal|2009 Indian general election]] by the actor turned politician [[Tapas Paul]] of the [[Trinamool Congress]]. She had been reportedly inactive in politics following her defeat. In 2019, she herself pledged support to the [[All India Trinamool Congress]] and then joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in the following year.<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 June 2020|title=West Bengal: Ex-CPM MP Jyotirmoyee Sikdar joins BJP|url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/06/09/west-bengal-ex-cpm-mp-jyotirmoyee-sikdar-joins-bjp.html|website=[[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]]|language=en}}</ref>

She was a [[middle distance runner]] and won the [[800 metres]] at the [[1995 Asian Athletics Championships]]. She went on to win the bronze medal in 800 m and 1500 m events in the [[1998 Asian Athletics Championships]] and gold medal in both the events in the [[Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games|Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998]].<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asg.htm Asian Games]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-08-20.</ref><ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asc.htm Asian Championships]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-08-20.</ref> She is a recipient of the [[Arjuna Award]] in 1995 and the [[Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna]] award for the year 1998–1999. She was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] in 2003.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Sikdar was born on 11 December 1969 to Gurudas Sikdar and Nihar Sikdar in Debagram of [[Nadia district]] in [[West Bengal]]. She studied till [[Higher Secondary]]. Sikdar married Avtar Singh on 9 February 1994, with whom she has a son.<ref>{{cite web |title=Current Lok Sabha Members Biographical Sketch |url=http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4185 |access-date=12 November 2019 |date=22 June 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060622230258/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4185|archive-date = 22 June 2006}}</ref>

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable}}
|-
!colspan="5"|Representing {{IND}}
|-

|rowspan=4|1998
|rowspan=2|[[1998 Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Fukuoka, Japan]]
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd
|800 m
|-
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd
|1500 m
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games|Asian Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Bangkok, Thailand]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|800 m
|-
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|1500 m
|-
|rowspan=1|1995
|rowspan=1|[[1995 Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]
|bgcolore=gold|[[Jakarta, Indonesia]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st 
|800 m
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060622230258/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4185 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Sports}}
{{Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Awardees}}
{{Eleventh to Fourteenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
{{Footer Asian Games Champions 800 metres Women}}
{{Footer Asian Games Champions 1500 metres Women}}
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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Krishnagar]]
[[Category:People from Nadia district]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian female middle-distance runners]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]]
[[Category:Indian sportsperson-politicians]]
[[Category:Women in West Bengal politics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes of India]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games]]
[[Category:14th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:All India Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Khel Ratna Award]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Arjuna Award]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from West Bengal]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Women members of the Lok Sabha]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games]]


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