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Manturam Pakhira

Manturam Pakhira
Minister of State (Independent charge) for Sundarban Affairs, Government of West Bengal
Assumed office
November 2012
Preceded byShyamal Mondal
ConstituencyKakdwip
Personal details
Born1963
NationalityIndian
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Residence(s)Bamanagar, Kakdwip, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India

Manturam Pakhira is an All India Trinamool Congress politician and a Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Sundarbans Affairs in the Council of Ministers of West Bengal. He is son of Kalipada Pakhira, he is a social worker.[1] On 30 September 2020, he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and thereafter hospitalized in Beleghata Infectious Disease Hospital in Kolkata.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Politics

Pakhira was first elected from Kakdwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in South 24 Parganas in 2001,[8] and again elected in 2011.[9] He was inducted as a Minister of State in charge of Sunderbans Development in November 2012.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Manturam Pakhira". My Neta. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Manturam Pakhira: West Bengal minister Manturam Pakhira, TMC leader Soham Chakraborty test positive for Covid-19 | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India.
  3. ^ "করোনা আক্রান্ত হয়ে মন্টুরাম পাখিরার 'মৃত্যু'তে শোকপ্রকাশ মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর, ভুল বুঝেই ডিলিট বার্তা".
  4. ^ "Bengal minister Manturam Pakhira, TMC leader Soham Chakraborty test positive for Covid-19 | Deccan Herald". 30 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Bengal minister Manturam Pakhira, TMC leader Soham Chakraborty test positive for COVID-19".
  6. ^ "Bengal minister Manturam Pakhira, TMC leader Soham Chakraborty test positive for COVID-19 | Health".
  7. ^ "Bengal minister tests Coronavirus positive". 30 September 2020.
  8. ^ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  9. ^ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Mamata reshuffles ministry, drops one minister". Business Standard India. Business Standard 22 November 2012. Press Trust of India. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2014.


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