Gautam Deb is an Indian

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. He served as the Housing Minister in the

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led Left Front government of

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. He was a MLA, elected from

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constituency defeating, Rafiqul Islam Mondal of the

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in 2006 and 2001, and of

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in 1996, Anath Bandhu Mitra of Congress in 1991 and Ananta Roy of Congress in 1987. In the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal he filed his candidature from

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where he was defeated by

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, the

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dramatist, director and actor who was a newcomer to politics. He was one of the 26 ministers who lost in this historic defeat of the Left Front government. However, his did not deter Deb who is still fighting against TMC and inspiring many through his speeches. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India, and a secretariat member of the party's West Bengal State Committee. On 28 January 2012, he was unanimously elected as the secretary of party's North 24-Parganas District Committee of 69 members, succeeding veteran leader Amitava Bose.

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