Indranil Sen (born 3 June 1965) is an Indian politician, Bengali artist, actor, and film producer. He is currently serving as the minister of state of the Tourism Department under the

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since September 2023. He is a member of the

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from the Chandannagar Assembly constituency since 2016 on the symbol of

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 ...

, a party led by

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. He was appointed the chairperson of West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation in 2023. Although he is primarily a singer of Indian Bengali songs, he is renowned for his work in modern Bengali music,

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the ...

, and

folk songs Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

. He has received numerous awards, including the BFJA Award for Best Male

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Early life

Indranil Sen was born on 3 June 1965 in Kolkata, West Bengal to Prodyut Kumar Sen. He has completed his senior secondary from the New Alipore Multipurpose School, Kolkata affiliated under West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education in 1983 and Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering from the Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology, Chennai in 1986.

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