Suvendu Adhikari

Suvendu Adhikari
Suvendu Adhikari in 2024
Leader of the Opposition, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 May 2021
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
La. Ganesan (additional charge)
C. V. Ananda Bose
DeputyMihir Goswami
Preceded byAbdul Mannan
Chairman of the Jute Corporation of India
In office
31 December 2020 – 2 March 2021
Preceded byAjay Kumar Jolly
Minister for the Environment,
Government of West Bengal
In office
2018–2020
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded bySovan Chatterjee
Succeeded byMamata Banerjee
Minister for Transport,
Government of West Bengal
In office
27 May 2016 – 27 November 2020
GovernorKeshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byAroop Biswas
Succeeded byFirhad Hakim
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2009 – 19 May 2016
Preceded byLakshman Chandra Seth
Succeeded byDibyendu Adhikari
ConstituencyTamluk
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2016
Preceded byFiroja Bibi
ConstituencyNandigram
In office
2006–2009
ConstituencyContai South
Preceded bySisir Adhikari
Succeeded byDibyendu Adhikari
Personal details
Born (1970-12-15) 15 December 1970
Contai, West Bengal, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations
Parent
RelativesDibyendu Adhikari (brother)
Residence(s)Contai, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
Alma materNetaji Subhas Open University (M.A.)
ProfessionPolitician

Suvendu Adhikari (born 15 December 1970) is an Indian politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party since May 2021. Adhikari previously worked in the state ministry for the West Bengal government from 2016 to 2020. He was elected Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Nandigram in 2016 and 2021, previously for South Contai in 2005, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamluk in 2009, and 2014.

He previously served as the Minister of Transport from 2016 to 2020, Irrigation and Water resource from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of West Bengal. He was also a member of Lok Sabha from Tamluk from 2009 to 2016 and the chairperson of Jute Corporation of India from 2020 to 2021. He was a former member of the Trinamool Congress from 1998 to 2020 and Indian National Congress from 1995 to 1998. He is the son of Sisir Adhikari, Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of State for Rural Development in the Manmohan Singh government.

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