Gautam Deb

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The Honourable
Gautam Deb
গৌতম দেব
Minister for Public Health Engineering & Housing Affairs
In office
1991–2011
GovernorGopal Krishna Gandhi
Succeeded bySubrata Mukherjee & Aroop Biswas
ConstituencyHasnabad
MLA
In office
1987–2011
Preceded byAmiya Bhusan Banerjee
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyHasnabad
Personal details
Born (1954-01-03) 3 January 1954 (age 70)
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
Children1 Son
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta

Gautam Deb is an Indian politician. He served as the Housing Minister in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government of West Bengal.[1] He was a MLA, elected from Hasnabad constituency defeating, Rafiqul Islam Mondal of the Trinamool Congress in 2006 and 2001, and of Congress in 1996, Anath Bandhu Mitra of Congress in 1991 and Ananta Roy of Congress in 1987.[2]

In the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal he filed his candidature from Dum Dum where he was defeated by Bratya Basu, the Bengali dramatist, director and actor who was a newcomer to politics. He was one of the 26 ministers who lost in this historic defeat of the Left Front government. However, his did not deter Deb who is still fighting against TMC[clarification needed] and inspiring many through his speeches.

He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India, and a secretariat member of the party's West Bengal State Committee. On 28 January 2012, he was unanimously elected as the secretary of party's North 24-Parganas District Committee of 69 members, succeeding veteran leader Amitava Bose.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Knives out, hiss at man who went for cobra". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  2. ^ "96 - Hasnabad Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  3. ^ "The Statesman".