Manoj Chakraborty

Manoj Chakraborty is an Indian politician and was Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Baharampur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.^[1][2][3]

Manoj Chakraborty
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs
In office 20 May 2011 – 18 January 2012
MLA
In office 2006–2021
Preceded by	Maya Rani Paul
Succeeded by	Subrata Moitra (Kanchan)
Constituency	Baharampur
Personal details
Born	(1954-04-08) 8 April 1954 (age 71) Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Residence	Kolkata
Alma mater	Berhampore College (B.Com)

Manoj Chakraborty resigned from the state cabinet on 18 January 2012.^[4]

Manoj Chakraborty shot into prominence when in the 2006 state assembly elections as an independent he won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel Congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.^[5]