Shankar Chakravorty (alternate spelling: Sankar Chakraborty) is an Indian politician and a trial lawyer from

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, District-Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. He is presently the chairman (cabinet rank) of the board of directors of three state run PSUs namely Mackintosh Burn Ltd., Westinghouse Saxby Farmer Ltd. and Britannia Engineering Ltd. He was formerly the vice president of the state committee of All India Trinamool Congress. He was the minister in charge of P.W.D., Dept. of Cooperation, Dept. of Renewable Energy, Dept. of Correctional Administration in the

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of the

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in various phases. He was an MLA, elected from the

constituency in the

2011 West Bengal state assembly election Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 Ap ...

. In 2016, he closely lost the same position. He was formerly a member of the board of administrators of Balurghat Municipality. He was previously the chairman and president of the

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committee of All India Trinamool Congress. He was also a member of the Board of Administrators of Balurghat Municipality.

Early life and education

Shankar Chakravorty was born in 1945. He is the son of Byomkesh Chakravorti, who was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council. He did his schooling from Balurghat High School. He holds a post-graduate degree in commerce and a degree in law from the

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Legal career

He was appointed special public prosecutor in the Rainagar multiple murder case. The incident happened on July 31, 1987 at Rainagar village near Balurghat town. Incidentally, the district court awarded death penalty to the perpetrators. This was later upheld by the High Court. As a lawyer, Shankar Chakravorty was actively associated with a case in which

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herself appeared as a lawyer in Balurghat Court in order to get bail for a group of students who were detained by the police. Mamata Banerjee, Shankar Chakravorty, Biplab Mitra, Subash Chaki (lawyer and politician) and a few other lawyers were instrumental in this case where the students were finally granted bail by the Honourable Court. Mamata Banerjee has chronicled this whole incident in her book ''Upalabdhi''.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46200218-upalabdhi

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chakraborty, Sankar Living people West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal State cabinet ministers of West Bengal 1945 births University of Calcutta alumni