Manas Ranjan Bhunia is an Indian

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and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the

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. He is also an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the

2011 West Bengal state assembly election Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 Ap ...

. He along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after

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took back the support from the state government. He joined the

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in 2016. He is the current Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development for the

. On 26 August 2015, he accused the

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of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement. On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members. In March 2021, he again got the ticket to contest the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Sabang constituency and won.

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