Ritabrata Banerjee (born 15 November 1979 ) is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as the State President of All India Trinamool Trade Union Congress

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. He was elected a

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member from West Bengal in February 2014.

Early life

Ritabrata Banerjee has attended school at South Point High School,

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, and obtained BA degree from

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and MA degrees in English at

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. He is a full-time political activist and a former General Secretary of the Student Union in his college.

Political controversy

He has been alleged along with other young comrades for harassment of former Finance minister of West Bengal

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. In April 2013 in a protest program organised by Student Federation of India before the Planning Commission, few young members of the student organisation harassed Mr. Mitra. He was suspended from CPI(M) party membership on 2 June 2017 for 3 months pending investigations to the allegations of moral turpitude and leaking party secrets to the press. On 10 October 2017 a lady named Namrata Dutta filed a complaint against Banerjee in

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Police Station for sexual exploitation by promising marriage. Ritabrata denied the accusation claiming the woman was extorting money from him asked him for 50 Lakhs not to file an FIR and uploaded screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation in which she asked him for money. Subsequently, CID, West Bengal served a notice to him. Ritabrata was expelled by the CPI(M) after an interview to ABP Ananda television channel in which he spoke against Mohammed Salim. Ritabrata claimed that he was not against the party and only against

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and Mohammed Salim.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Banerjee, Ritabrata 1979 births Living people Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal