Hiten Barman is an Indian politician, who was earlier with

All India Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a Left-wing nationalism, left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a Political faction, faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest ...

and later joined

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction f ...

in the Indian state West Bengal.

Early life

Hiten Barman, son of Maneswar and Rajabala Barman, was born on 21 June 1950 at Gopalpur in Cooch Behar district. Educated at Mathabhanga High School, he passed Higher Secondary and Junior Basic Training, and became a teacher. He married Kalpana in 1983 and they have two sons.

Political career

He entered politics at a young age in 1972, when he was studying at Ananda Chandra College in Jalpaiguri. Initially involved in student politics, he subsequently joined the

Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest in West Bengal. The party re-established ...

. Hailing from a peasant family he emerged as the saha-sabhapati of Mathabhanga Panchayat Samiti. In the 1996 Lok Sabha election, he contested as a candidate of the

Forward Bloc (Socialist) Forward Bloc (Socialist), a break-away group from the All India Forward Bloc. The party was primarily based in northern West Bengal. FB(S) was formed in 1992 as a result of a split lead by Kamal Guha against the transfer of the Tin Bigha Corridor ...

led by

Kamal Guha Kamal Guha (1928–2007) was an Indian politician. He was an All India Forward Bloc leader and member of the Left Front cabinet in the Indian state of West Bengal for over two decades. Early life Kamal Guha was born at Dinhata on 20 January 1 ...

. He faced defeat then but was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from the

Cooch Behar Cooch Behar (), also known as Koch Bihar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and it stands on bank of the Torsa river. The city is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the ...

seat as a Forward Bloc candidate. In 2009, the Forward Bloc refused to renominate their sitting MP. This aggrieved him and he left the party and later joined the Trinamool Congress. In 2011, he was elected to the state assembly on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the

Sitalkuchi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Sitalkuchi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 5 Sitalkuchi Assembly c ...

. He was made the Forest Minister in 2011 but was dropped in a reshuffle in 2013.

References

1950 births All India Forward Bloc politicians Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 People from Cooch Behar district Tripuri people India MPs 2004–2009 Lok Sabha members from West Bengal Living people {{WestBengal-politician-stub