Chandrima Bhattacharya

Chandrima Bhattacharya^[1] is an Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms, Refugee and Rehabilitation^[2] of the Government of West Bengal. Previously, she acted as a minister in the first reshuffle of the ministry in January 2012 after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.^[3] She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012.^[4] She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Law and Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal in November 2012.^[5]

Chandrima Bhattacharya
Minister of State (Independent Charge), Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2012
Governor	M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil (additional charge) Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose
Department	Finance (I/C) Health and Family Welfare (MoS) Land and Land Reforms (MoS) Refugee and Rehabilitation (MoS)
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Constituency	Dum Dum Uttar
In office 2016–2021
Preceded by	Dibyendu Adhikari
Succeeded by	Arup Kumar Das
Constituency	Kanthi Dakshin
In office 2011–2016
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Constituency	Dum Dum Uttar
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-05) 5 December 1955 (age 69)
Nationality	India
Political party	Trinamool Congress
Residence(s)	57E Garcha Road, Kolkata
Profession	Politician

Bhattacharya holds an LL.B (1976) degree from the University of Calcutta.^[6] She was also a practising advocate in Calcutta High Court till the 2011 elections.^[4]

She had been elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly on an Trinamool Congress ticket from Dum Dum Uttar in 2011 and 2021 and from Kanthi Dakshin in 2017.^[7]