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| Office | Minister of State (Independent Charge), Labour Government of West Bengal |
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| Office | Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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| Predecessor | Moloy Ghatak
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| Political party | Trinamool Congress |
| Spouse | Karabi Manna
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Becharam Manna is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress. He won the Haripal seat by a margin of 22,000 votes, in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly elections. The Singur seat was retained by the sitting Trinamool Congress MLA, Rabindranath Bhattacharya.[1][2] He also became Minister of State of the Agriculture Department, Government of West Bengal for few days.[3]
He was the first person to challenge the Tata group at Singur, when the Nano plant was being constructed.[4] He is the convener of Krishi Jami Raksha Samiti, a group agitating for the protection of agricultural land.[5] At 2021 Elections in West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made a candidate from Singur and his wife from his constituency Haripal. They both win in the election. After the election Mamta Banarjee made him 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.[5][6] After winning in the elections, he confirmed that at Singur land had been “forcibly taken from nearly 2,900 villagers”.[7]
References
- ↑ Haripal. Election Commission of India.
- ↑ Singur. Election Commission of India.
- ↑ Singur MLA shares dais with Becharam Manna. timesofindia.com(March 14, 2013). Retrieved August 6, 2017.
- ↑ Bengal polls: Singur's 'Nano' politics. NDTV 10 April 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The world of Becharam Manna. The Times of India(2008-10-03).
- ↑ 87 'criminal' candidates in Bengal polls' fourth, fifth phases. TwoCircles.net.
- ↑ Singur hopes to get back 400 acres by Uttam Dutta. im4change.