Gautam Deb

Not to be confused with Goutam Deb.

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]

Gautam Deb
Minister for Public Health Engineering & Housing Affairs,Government of West Bengal
In office 1991–2011
Governor	Gopal Krishna Gandhi
Succeeded by	Subrata Mukherjee & Aroop Biswas
Constituency	Hasnabad
MLA
In office 1987–2011
Preceded by	Amiya Bhusan Banerjee
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Hasnabad
Personal details
Born	(1954-01-03) 3 January 1954 (age 71)
Political party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Calcutta

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]