Manoj Tigga (born 11 May 1972) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...

from Alipurduars,

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elected in the

2024 Indian general election General elections were held in Elections in India, India from 2024 elections in India, 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha, 543 members of the Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the res ...

as a member of the

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. He was former member of Legislative assembly representing the Madarihat constituency in

. In the

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the ''Vidhan Sabha'' in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. ...

, Tigga contesting on an election ticket from BJP defeated his nearest rival Padam Lama of TMC by 22,308 votes. He completed his B.Sc. in Biology from A C College, Jalpaiguri, under North Bengal University in 1996.

Political career

He contested

2009 Indian general election General elections were held in India in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009 to elect the members of the fifteenth Lok Sabha. With a registered electorate of 716 million and a turnout of 417 million voters, it was the l ...

from Alipurduars constituency and was defeated by Manohar Tirkey of

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Position Held

Manoj Tigga is a Member of the Committee on Labour, Textiles and Skill Development.

References

Living people 1973 births People from Alipurduar district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal Bengali Hindus West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026 India MPs 2024–2029 Lok Sabha members from West Bengal {{WestBengal-BJP-politician-stub