Paresh Chandra Adhikary is an Indian politician from AITC(till August 2022). In May 2021, he was elected as the member of the

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from Mekliganj.

Career

Adhikary hails from Mekliganj, Cooch Behar district. His father's name is Dutta Narayan Adhikary. He passed Higher Secondary Examination from Mekhliganj High School,

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in 1970. Paresh Chandra Adhikary became MLA for the first time in 1991 after winning the Forward Bloc ticket. Although he lost the 1996 assembly elections, he continued to win for the

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in 2001, 2006 and 2011. He was the Acting Food Minister of the Left Front Government in West Bengal from 2006 to 2011. In 2019, he left the Forward Bloc and joined the Trinamool Congress. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he contested from Cooch Behar Lok Sabha on Trinamul Congress ticket. But Adhikary lost to BJP candidate Nisith Pramanik. In the 2021 assembly elections, he won the Mekhliganj assembly seat again and became the MLA and Chief Minister

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made Paresh Chandra Adhikary the state minister for Department of School Education in the State.

Controversy

On 17 May 2022, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed CBI to interrogate Adhikary for alleged appointment of his daughter Ankita Adhikary as a teacher in government aided school. The Court also urged Chief Minister and Governor

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to remove Adhikary from the post of Minister.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adhikari, Paresh Chandra Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Cooch Behar district Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026 West Bengal MLAs 1991–1996 West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011 West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 All India Forward Bloc politicians