Manju Basu is an
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 ...
politician and is a Member of Legislative Assembly from
Noapara.
A graduate in humanities and education, she was a school teacher by profession. She entered active politics in 2000 after her husband, Bikash Basu, also a school teacher and a Trinamool Congress activist, was killed in the run up to the election the following year.
She was nominated a Trinamool Congress candidate from Noapara in 2001 and she won the election.
However, she lost in 2006
but won again in 2011.
In the 2016 General Election she lost the seat again. The Congress candidate Madhusudan Ghosh won the seat.
Again, in 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election she defeated her nearest rival Sunil Singh of BJP.
References
Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal
Living people
West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006
West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016
Politicians from North 24 Parganas district
Women members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
21st-century Indian women politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026
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