Sudip Bandyopadhyay

Sudip Bandyopadhyay (born 10 December 1952) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from Kolkata Uttar Constituency of West Bengal,India. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has been a member of the Lok Sabha for five terms, serving in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th Lok Sabhas. He represents the Kolkata Uttar constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Trinamool Congress political party.[1] He is the Leader of the Lok Sabha of the All India Trinamool Congress Party. He has also represented India at the United Nations two times, first in Geneva and second in New York where he delivered his speech in the Central Hall of the General Assembly.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Leader, All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 July 2011
Deputy	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (Deputy Leader) Adv. Kalyan Banerjee (Chief Whip)
Preceded by	Mamata Bandyopadhyay
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Preceded by	New constituency
Constituency	Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare
In office 13 July 2011 – 22 September 2012
President	Pratibha Patil Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	Dinesh Trivedi
Succeeded by	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office October 1999 – February 2004
Preceded by	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Succeeded by	Sudhangshu Seal
Constituency	Calcutta North West
In office March 1998 – April 1999
Preceded by	Dr. Debi Prasad Pal
Succeeded by	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Constituency	Calcutta North West
MLA, 14th Vidhan Sabha
In office 2006 – 2009 (resigned)
Preceded by	Nayana Bandyopadhyay
Succeeded by	Swarna Kamal Saha
Constituency	Bowbazar
MLA, 12th Vidhan Sabha
In office 1996 – 1998 (resigned)
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Ajit Pandey
Constituency	Bowbazar
MLA, 11th Vidhan Sabha
In office 1991 – 1996
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Himself
Constituency	Bowbazar
MLA, 10th Vidhan Sabha
In office 1987 – 1991
Preceded by	Abdur Rauf Ansari
Succeeded by	Himself
Constituency	Bowbazar
Personal details
Born	Sudip Banerjee 10 December 1952 Behrampore, West Bengal, India
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress (1998-2004) (2008-Incumbent)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (1977-1998) (2004-2008)
Spouse(s)	Nayna Bandyopadhyay
Parents	Bisweswar Bandyopadhyay (father) & Jyotsna Bandyopadhyay (mother)
Alma mater	Krishnath College (BSc)
Committees	Member of several committees
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Early life and education

Sudip Bandyopadhyay was born in a traditional and respectable family residing at Berhampore in the district of Murshidabad, West Bengal. His father, late Bisweswar Bandyopadhyay being a State Government Official efficiently served the office of the Murshidabad Collectorate and his mother, late Jyotsna Bandyopadhyay was housewife. He was graduated from Krishnath College, Berhampore obtaining his B.Sc. Degree with Distinction under the University of Calcutta. In the early days of his life as a student in the college, Shri Bandyopadhyay was an outspoken personality towards any kind of injustice to his inmates of the college and he was also kept himself involved with the various social activities of the locality. In the next phase of like he became a Social Worker by profession.

Political career

Sudip Bandyopadhyay came to active politics in the year 1970 at his very early age and since then he is associated with various political activities of the State and the Nation. At the beginning of his political career, he was firstly designated as Secretary, Chhatra Parishad (Frontal Wing of INC), West Bengal in the year 1970–71. He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for four terms and Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) for five terms being a total of nine terms as an elected member in both the Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha during his political career. Shri Bandyopadhyay did submit his resignation twice from West Bengal Legislative Assembly to contest for Lok Sabha elections. He is one of the brilliant, dynamic and articulate speaker of Lok Sabha since the beginning of his parliamentary career. He is very much eminent with his presence in the Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha). He held several posts, i.e. President, West Bengal Youth Congress from 1972 to 1975, General Secretary, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee and Member, All India Congress Committee for a long period of 30 years, Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare. Presently, he is senior most Vice-President of All India Trinamool Congress Party and also Leader of the AITC Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha. In the 16th Lok Sabha, Shri Bandyopadhyay was appointed as Chairperson, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways and in the 17th Lok Sabha, again he is assigned with the post of Chairperson, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution. Besides, he has served as a Member of the Standing Committee on Finance, Defence, Urban Development and is also associated with the Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Public Undertakings, Government Assurance Committee, Business Advisory Committee, Consultative Committee of Ministry of Civil Aviation etc. Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay has been nominated earlier and also presently continuing as a Member of Samsad (Court) of Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan founded by Kavi Guru Rabindranath Tagore, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India is the Chancellor of the University. Shri Bandyopadhyay is also a Member of the Executive Committee, Indian Parliamentary Group headed by Hon'ble Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Thus, he has already completed 50 years of political life.

Countries visited abroad include Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Singapore, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America etc. (on his official and unofficial tour).

On 3 January 2017, Bandyopadhyay was arrested after interrogation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his non co-operation in ongoing investigation and alleged involvement in the Ponzi firm Rose Valley Group.[2]

Posts held

No.	Start	End	Position
1	1987	1991	Member, 10th Vidhan Sabha
2	1991	1996	Member, 11th Vidhan Sabha
3	1996	1998	Member, 12th Vidhan Sabha
4	1998	1999	Member, 12th Lok Sabha
5	1998	1999	Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
6	1998	1999	Member, Business Advisory Committee
7	1998	1999	Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development
8	1998	1999	Member, Committee on Communications
9	1998	1999	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways
10	1999	2004	Member, 13th Lok Sabha
11	1999	2000	Member, Committee of Privileges
12	1999	2000	Member, Committee on Finance
13	1999	2000	Member, Committee on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
14	1999	2000	Member, Committee on Labour and Welfare
15	1999	2000	Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
16	1999	2000	Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Wakf Board
17	2000	2001	Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
18	2000	2004	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways
19	2006	2009	Member, 14th Vidhan Sabha
20	2009	2014	Member, 15th Lok Sabha
21	2009	2014	Member, Committee on Finance
22	2009	2014	Member, Consultative Committee on Defence
23	2011	2014	Leader, Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
24	2011	2012	Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare
25	2014	2019	Member, 16th Lok Sabha
26	2014	2019	Member, Business Advisory Committee
27	2014	2019	Leader, AITC Party in Lok Sabha
28	2014	2019	Member, Public Accounts Committee
29	2014	2019	Member, Committee on Finance
30	2014	2019	Member, Joint Committee on Salaries & Allowances of Members of Parliament
31	2014	2019	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation
32	2014	2019	Member, Committee on Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
33	2014	2019	Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Maintenance of Heritage Character and Development of Parliament House Complex
34	2015	2019	Member, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha
35	2016	2019	Chairperson, Standing Committee on Railways
36	2018	2019	Member, Samsad (Court) of Viswa-Bharati
37	2019	onwards	Member, 17th Lok Sabha
38	2019	onwards	Member, Business Advisory Committee
39	2019	onwards	Chairperson, Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
40	2019	onwards	Member, Committee on Govt. Assurances
41	2019	onwards	Member, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha
42	2019	onwards	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation
43	2020	onwards	Member, Samsad (Court) of Viswa-Bharati

See also

• 12th, 13th & 15th Lok Sabha
• Lok Sabha
• Politics of India
• Parliament of India
• Government of India
• All India Trinamool Congress
• West Bengal

References

1. "Member Profile". ac2014. Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
2. "Rose Valley ponzi scam: TMC leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay faces CBI grilling". Hindustan Times. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2020.