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

Balurghat Balurghat (pron:bʌlʊəˈgɑ:t) is a town and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the district headquarter of the Dakshin Dinajpur district. It is one of the major cities connected through National Highway 512. In this tow ...

, 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 Council of Ministers of West Bengal, Council of Ministers 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. It was held in six phases between 18 April and 1 ...

. 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

Dakshin Dinajpur district Dakshin Dinajpur () or South Dinajpur is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. It was created on 1 April 1992 by the division of the erstwhile West Dinajpur District. The Headquarter (sadar) of the district is at Balurghat. It ...

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 Shankar Chakravorty is a very successful trial lawyer. He was appointed Special Public Prosecutor in the Rainagar multiple murder cas

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'

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