Ujjal Biswas

Ujjal Biswas is an Indian politician and the present Minister of the Science, Technology and Bio-Technology department in the Government of West Bengal.^[1] Till 2022, he was the minister for correctional administration. He is also an MLA, elected from the Krishnanagar Dakshin constituency of Nadia district in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.^[2][3][4]

Ujjal Biswas
Minister of Science, Technology & Bio-technology Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 August 2022
Governor	C .V. Ananda Bose
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Ratna De (Nag)
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office May 13, 2011
Constituency	Krishnanagar Dakshin
Personal details
Born	(1954-06-17) 17 June 1954 (age 71) Krishnanagar, Nadia
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Residence	Krishnanagar

Family

Ujjal Biswas is from a Mahishya family of freedom fighters who participated in various agitations against the British rule such as Indigo revolt leader Digambar Biswas under whose leadership the indigo farmers protested against the European Indigo planters.

Anushilan Samiti revolutionary Basanta Kumar Biswas and also, freedom fighter Manmathanath Biswas also happen to be from the same family.^[5]