Shilbhadra Dutta

Shilbhadra Dutta (born 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Barrackpur constituency since 2011.

Shilbhadra Dutta
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2011
Preceded byNew seat
ConstituencyBarrackpore
Personal details
Born1955 (age 65–66)
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party[1](since 2020)
ResidenceSodepur, West Bengal, India[3]
ProfessionPolitician and advocate

Education

He has done post graduate and went to Calcutta University and got M.Com and LLB (law) degree. [3]

Political career

He came to Indian National Congress party and played a important role. But he later joins Trinamool Congress in 1998 with hands of Mamata Banerjee. Then he got a ticket as a candidate for Barrackpur seat at 2011 (after destabilising Titagarh constituency; as per Delimination Act). He got 79,515 votes and won. After 5 years, he won again that seat in 2016.

Political controversies and party shifting

At December 2020, Trinamool Congress authorities appointed Prashant Kishor as IT incharge and adviser for 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections in West Bengal.[4] There after most of the Trinamool leaders especially Dutta was critisising against Kishor for controlling the party. Kishor's team (I-PAC) went to Dutta's house after that. But Dutta declined their advice and said that what he is doing, he thought that well before doing it.[5]

At 18th of December, 2020, after Suvendu Adhikari resigns his MLA seat, Dutta also resigns from TMC but remained his MLA seat. Later at 20th of December, Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah's rally at Medinipur, Adhikari joined in Bharatiya Janata Party along with 9 MLAs including Dutta. Although, Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool rejected that incident.

References
  1. "Six TMC MLAs and four from Congress, Left join BJP at Amit Shah's rally". Hindustan Times. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. "Barrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Dutta quits Trinamool Congress, becomes third major member to exit". The Economic Times. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. "Candidate details:myneta.info". myneta.info. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  4. PTI (22 February 2020). "'Adviser' Prashant Kishor has altered political discourse of Mamata's TMC". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  5. "Shilbhadra Dutta declines 'political talks' with I-PAC team". Times of India. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.


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