Sital Kumar Sardar (born 1942) is an Indian politician from

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. He is a five time consecutive member of the

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from Sankrail Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Caste community, in

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. He first won the

1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1996. The election took place simultaneously with the 1996 Indian general election. This was the last election Jyoti Basu contested, as he retired from politics in 2 ...

representing the

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and went on to win four more times till 2016 on

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction f ...

ticket.

Early life and education

Sardar is from

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, Howrah district, West Bengal. He is the son of late Khandu Charan Sardar. He studied Class 12 at Shibpur Dinabandhu Institution, in the then

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

in 1961. Earlier, he did his schooling at New Andul High School and passed the board examinations in 1959.

Career

Sardar first became an MLA from Sankrail Assembly constituency representing the Indian National Congress, winning the 1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. Then he shifted to the All India Trinamool Congress and won the seat for another consecutive four terms. He won in

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

on Trinamool Congress ticket. In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, he polled 86,212 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Samir Malick of the

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, by a margin of 14,757 votes. In 2011, he polled 88,029 votes and defeated his closest rival, Anirban Hazra, also from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), by a margin of 17,857 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sardar, Sital Kumar 1942 births Living people Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal People from Howrah district West Bengal MLAs 1996–2001 West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011 West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal