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| name = Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury<br />
| image = File:The Minister of State for Railways, Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury addressing at the presentation of the National Awards for Outstanding Service in Railways, in Mumbai on April 16, 2013.jpg<br />
| caption = Chowdhury in Mumbai, c. April 2013<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|04|02|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Baharampur|Behrampore]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| residence = 9, Haribabu Lane<br/>P.O.-[[Cossimbazar]]<br/>[[Baharampur|Berhampore]] - 2<br/>[[West Bengal]]- 742102<br />
| death_date = <br />
| death_place = <br />
| office = [[Indian National Congress|Leader of Indian National Congress]] in [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| president2 = [[Sonia Gandhi]] ''(Interim)''<br />
| president1 = [[Rahul Gandhi]]<br/>[[Sonia Gandhi]] ''(Interim)''<br />
| termstart1 = 16 June 2019<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Mallikarjun Kharge]]<br />
| office2 = [[West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee|President of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee]]<br />
| term_start2 = 9 September 2020<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Somendra Nath Mitra]]<br />
| term_start3 = 11 February 2014<br />
| term_end3 = 22 September 2018<br />
| predecessor3 = [[Pradip Bhattacharya]]<br />
| successor3 = [[Somendra Nath Mitra]]<br />
| office4 = [[Public Accounts Committee (India)|Chairperson of Public Accounts Committee]]<br />
| term_start4 = 26 July 2019<br />
| term_end4 = <br />
| appointed4 = [[Om Birla]] <br />
{{small|([[Speaker of the Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha Speaker]])}}<br />
| predecessor4 = [[Mallikarjun Kharge]]<br />
| office5 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| constituency5 = [[Berhampore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Berhampore]]<br />
| termstart5 = 11 October 1999<br />
| termend5 = <br />
| predecessor5 = [[Promothes Mukherjee]]<br />
| office6 = [[Union Minister|Minister of State for Railways]]<br />
| primeminister6 = [[Manmohan Singh]]<br />
| termstart6 = 28 October 2012<br />
| termend6 = 26 May 2014<br />
| predecessor6 = [[Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy|K.J. Surya Prakash Reddy]]<br />
| successor6 = [[Manoj Sinha]]<br/>[[Rajen Gohain]]<br />
| office7 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| predecessor7 = [[Sisir Sarkar]]<br />
| termstart7 = 1996<br />
| termend7 = 1999<br />
| constituency7 = [[Nabagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nabagram]]<br />
| profession = Social worker, Politician<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Arpita Chowdhury|15 September 1987|9 January 2019|end=d.}}|{{marriage|Atasi Chattopadhyaya Chowdhury|2019}}}}<br />
| children = 2<br />
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'''Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury''' (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician serving as the leader of the [[Indian National Congress]] in the [[17th Lok Sabha]] and the [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]] from [[Berhampore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Berhampore]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/congress-names-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-as-its-leader-in-lok-sabha-reports/438941 | title=After Rahul Gandhi refuses, Congress names Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as its leader in Lok Sabha: Reports | publisher=Times Now | date=18 June 2019 | access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> He is also the current president of [[West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee]] following the demise of [[Somendra Nath Mitra]].<ref>[http://westbengalelectionresult.com/adhir-chowdhury-congress-leader-political-profilecontact-blogs-news-address/285 Adhir Chowdhury -Political Profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206144334/http://westbengalelectionresult.com/adhir-chowdhury-congress-leader-political-profilecontact-blogs-news-address/285 |date=6 December 2010 }} Adhir Chowdhury -Political Profile</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Chowdhury was born on 2 April 1956 to Niranjan and Saroja Bala Chowdhury at [[Berhampore, West Bengal|Berhampore]] in [[Murshidabad district]], [[West Bengal]]. He studied at I.C. Institute in Berhampore.<ref name="LS">{{cite web |title=Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury |url=http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=97 |work=Lok Sabha |access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Chowdhury joined the [[Indian National Congress]] party during the premiership of [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. In 1991, he contested the [[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election| West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] from [[Nabagram (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nabagram constituency]]. During the polling, he was chased by 300 supporters of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and held hostage by its candidate. Chowdhury lost by a margin of 1,401 votes. In 1996, he was elected from the same constituency.<ref name="IT">{{cite web |title=Congress finds a champion in former Naxalite Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to take on Left Front |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/20030609-congress-finds-a-champion-in-former-naxalite-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-to-take-on-left-front-792639-2003-06-09 |publisher=[[India Today]] |access-date=30 May 2019 |date=9 June 2003}}</ref> Chowdhury was polled 76,852 votes and won by a margin of approximately 20,329 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nabagram |url=https://www.electionsinindia.com/west-bengal/nabagram-assembly-vidhan-sabha-constituency-elections |publisher=Elections in India |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref><br />
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Chowdhury contested the [[1999 Indian general election]] from [[Berhampore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Berhampore constituency]]. He won by a margin of 95,391 votes<ref name="IT"/> and defeated his nearest rival, the sitting MP Pramothes Mukherjee of [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]].<ref name="berhampore">{{cite web |title=Berhampore |url=http://www.elections.in/west-bengal/parliamentary-constituencies/baharampur.html |publisher=Elections |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref> Following his success, he was made the Congress president for the [[Murshidabad district]].<ref name="IT"/> Between 1999 and 2000, he served as a member of Committee on Information Technology, Railway Convention Committee and Committee to Review the Rate of Dividend Payable by the Railway Undertaking to the General Revenues. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as a member of Consultative Committee of the [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|Ministry of External Affairs]].<ref name="LS"/> In 2003, under Chowdhury's leadership, the Congress party won 23 out of 33 ''[[Panchayat Raj|zilla parishad]]'' seats, 13 out of 26 ''[[Panchayat samiti (block)|panchayat samiti]]s'' and 104 out of 254 village councils in Murshidabad.<ref name="IT"/> <br />
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On 28 October 2012 he was inducted in the Union Ministry under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as Minister of State for Railways.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/cabinet-reshuffle-18-518897.html | title=UPA ministry gets 17 new faces, core team stays| date=28 October 2012 |work=News 18 |access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref><br />
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[[File:Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on October 29, 2012.jpg|thumb|left|Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on 29 October 2012.]] <br />
After taking charge as Minister of State for Railways, he has reviewed the statutes of safety, punctuality and passenger amenities with Board Members and inspected Sealdah, Howrah, Beharampur etc. railway stations to check adequacy of passenger amenity facilities.<br />
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He became the president of [[West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee|West Bengal Pradesh Congress]] on 10 February 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/In-tough-message-Cong-makes-Adhir-Chowdhury-PCC-chief/articleshow/30180087.cms|title=In tough message, Cong makes Adhir Chowdhury PCC chief - Times of India|access-date=20 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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In June 2019, he was selected as Congress leader in Lok Sabha. According to a report in NDTV, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was given the job after the party failed to convince Rahul Gandhi.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-leader-of-congress-in-lok-sabha-1551203-2019-06-18 | title=West Bengal's Adhir Ranjan is Congress leader in Lok Sabha |work=India Today |date=18 June 2019|first=Mausami |last=Singh |access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref><br />
On 26 July 2019, Chowdhury was appointed as the chairman of Seventeenth Lok Sabha Committee on Public Accounts. The Public Accounts Committee is now constituted every year under Rule 308 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.<ref>{{cite news |title=दो कमेटियों का गठनः कांग्रेसी चौधरी एक के तो दूसरे की लेखी अध्यक्ष |url=https://www.jansatta.com/national/lok-sabha-speaker-om-birla-appoints-meenakashi-lekhi-chairman-committee-public-undertakings-congress-mp-adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-chairperson-public-accounts-committee-aka-pac/1098329/ |access-date=4 August 2019 |work=Jansatta |date=26 July 2019 |language=hi}}</ref><br />
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After passing away of [[Somen Mitra]], the then president of [[West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee]], on 9 September 2020, Chowdhury was appointed as the president of [[West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee]].<ref>{{cite news |url =https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/adhir-ranjan-chowdhury-appointed-west-bengal-congress-chief-2293039|title =Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Appointed West Bengal Congress Chief|date =9 September 2020|website =ndtv.com|agency= [[Press Trust of India]]|access-date =9 September 2020}} </ref><br />
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