Manoj Chakraborty is an Indian

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and was Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the

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. He is also an MLA, elected from the Baharampur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Manoj Chakraborty resigned from the state cabinet on 18 January 2012. Manoj Chakraborty shot into prominence when in the 2006 state assembly elections as an independent he won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel Congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.

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State cabinet ministers of West Bengal Living people West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal People from Baharampur 1954 births West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011 {{WestBengal-INC-politician-stub