Manas Bhunia

Manas Ranjan Bhunia
Manas Ranjan Bhunia. March 2023.
Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development
Government of West Bengal
In office
10 May 2021 – 7 May 2026
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
La. Ganesan (additional charge)
C. V. Ananda Bose
R. N. Ravi
Preceded byDr. Soumen Kumar Mahapatra
Succeeded byArup Kumar Das
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
19 August 2017 – 9 May 2021
Preceded byDebabrata Bandyopadhyay
Succeeded bySushmita Dev
Minister for Irrigation and Waterways & Small and Micro Industries and Textile
Government of West Bengal
In office
20 May 2011 – 25 September 2012
GovernorM. K. Narayanan
Preceded bySubhas Naskar (Irrigation and Waterways)
Succeeded byMamata Banerjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
2 May 2021 – 4 May 2026
Preceded byGeeta Bhunia
Succeeded byAmal Kumar Panda
ConstituencySabang
In office
11 May 2006 – 18 August 2017
Preceded byTushar Kanti Laya
Succeeded byGeeta Bhunia
In office
22 May 1982 – 14 May 1996
Preceded byGouranga Samanta
Succeeded byDr Makhan Lal Bangal
President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
In office
23 October 2008 – 17 January 2011
Preceded byPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Succeeded byPradip Bhattacharya
Personal details
BornManas Ranjan Bhunia[1]
(1952-02-28) 28 February 1952
Sabang, West Bengal, India
Party Trinamool Congress (2016–2026)
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress (1970–2016)
SpouseGita Rani Bhunia[2]

Manas Ranjan Bhunia (born 28 February 1952) is an Indian politician and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the Government of West Bengal.[1]

Career

He passed M.B.B.S from N.R.S Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata in 1974. He is the son of the late Pulin Behari Bhunia, a freedom fighter. Bhunia became an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after Indian National Congress withdrew support for the state government. He joined the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in 2016. He was the Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development of the Government of West Bengal.[3]

On 26 August 2015, he accused the West Bengal Police of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement.[4] On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members.[5] In March 2021, he again got the AITC ticket to contest the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Sabang constituency and won, defeating Amulya Maity of the BJP by 9,864 votes. He was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Amal Kumar Panda in 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[6]

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  1. 1 2 "Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet". Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. ↑ TMC fields Manas Ranjan Bhunia's wife for Sabang Assembly by-election The Times of India. Retrieved 10 September 2021
  3. ↑ Rashmi. "Manas Ranjan Bhunia: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia". www.oneindia.com. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "BJP MLA booked for assaulting tehsildar". The Times of India. 26 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Press Trust of India. "Congress MLA Manas Bhuniya starts indefinite fast". India.com.
  6. ↑ "Assembly Constituency 226". Retrieved 11 May 2026.
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