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| image = Jyotirmoyee Sikdar join BJP.jpg<br />
| name = Jyotirmoyee Sikdar<br />
| caption = Sikdar Join [[Bharatiya Janata party|BJP]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|12|11|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Nadia, West Bengal]]<br />
| residence = [[Kolkata]]<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term_start = 2004<br />
| term_end = 2009<br />
| predecessor = [[Satyabrata Mookherjee]]<br />
| successor = [[Tapas Paul]]<br />
| constituency = [[Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnanagar]]<br />
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (2020)<br />
| spouse = {{Marriage|Avtar Singh|1994}}<br />
| children = 1<br />
| website = <br />
| footnotes = <br />
| date = 17 September<br />
| year = 2006<br />
| source = https://web.archive.org/web/20060622230258/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4185<br />
| otherparty = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (2004-2009)<br />
}}<br />
[[File:Jyotirmoyee Sikdar CPIM.jpg|thumb|Sikdar as MP candidate of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] ]]<br />
'''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><br />
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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><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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><br />
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==Achievements==<br />
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!colspan="5"|Representing {{IND}}<br />
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|rowspan=4|1998<br />
|rowspan=2|[[1998 Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]<br />
|rowspan=2|[[Fukuoka, Japan]]<br />
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd<br />
|800 m<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd<br />
|1500 m<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=2|[[Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games|Asian Games]]<br />
|rowspan=2|[[Bangkok, Thailand]]<br />
|bgcolor=gold|1st<br />
|800 m<br />
|-<br />
|bgcolor=gold|1st<br />
|1500 m<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=1|1995<br />
|rowspan=1|[[1995 Asian Athletics Championships|Asian Championships]]<br />
|bgcolore=gold|[[Jakarta, Indonesia]]<br />
|bgcolor=gold|1st <br />
|800 m<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [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]<br />
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{{Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Awardees}}<br />
{{Eleventh to Fourteenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}<br />
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{{Footer Asian Games Champions 1500 metres Women}}<br />
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