Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay is an Indian politician representing

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and is the first elected MLA of the party (elected in 1998). He was the founder president of INTTUC, the labour wing of his party

. He is one of the close associates of

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since mid 80s and was a prominent face in her fights against

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. He is also one of the founding members of Trinamool Congress in 1998. He was the Government

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of his first TMC government in the West Bengal

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from 2011 to 2016. On 27 May 2016 he took charge as the Hon'ble Minister of Power & Non Conventional Energy,

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. A boxer in his younger days, he is a veteran trade union leader, holding degrees in science and law. He is president of Kolkata Auto Rickshaw Operators' Union. He won the

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seat as a Congress candidate in 1991 and 1996 and as a Trinamool Congress candidate won the Rasbehari seat in 2001 and 2006. In 2011 he was pitted against a green-horn and won by nearly 50,000 votes and was further re-elected in 2016. Currently he is the Minister-in-Charge, Department of

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and

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in the

. He resigned from his seat in the Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) for CM

to contest West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-election. He then contested the by election from Khardah (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and won with a margin of 93,832 votes. He presently serves as a Minister in West Bengal Cabinet and also as the Deputy Leader of the House in

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