Kalyan Banerjee (politician)

Kalyan Banerjee
কল্যাণ ব্যানার্জী
Member of Parliament
for Serampore
Assumed office
2009
Preceded by Santasri Chatterjee
MLA
In office
2001–2006
Succeeded by Amitava Mukhopadhyay
Constituency Asansol Uttar
Personal details
Born (1957-01-04) 4 January 1957
Political party

All India Trinamool Congress

Indian National Congress
Spouse(s) Smt. Chhabi Banerjee
Children 1 Son & 1 Daughter
Alma mater

Bankura Sammilani College, Bankura (B.Com)

Ranchi Law College, Ranchi (LL.B)
Profession Lawyer
Religion Hindu

Kalyan Banerjee is a member of the All India Trinamool Congress and has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Serampore (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

He was earlier elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the same constituency.[2]

A B.Com. and LL.B. Kalyan Banerjee is a well known advocate, who has been frequently taking up numerous cases for Trinamool Congress. He has been practicing in Calcutta High Court since 1981. Amongst the cases he handled are the Rizwanur Rahman Case, matters relating to Nandigram, Chhota Angaria Case, Bhikari Paswan Case, Imposition of Sec-144 in Singur and different land acquisition cases.[3]

He visited U.K. and U.S.A. as a member of a parliamentary team in October 2009.[3]

References

  1. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  2. "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Lok Sabha Elections 2014 – Know Your Candidates". Kalyan Banerjee. All India Trinamool Congress. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.