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Rabindranath Bhattacharjee
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| Minister for Agriculture | |
| In office 20 May 2011 – 21 November 2012 | |
| Governor | M. K. Narayanan |
| Succeeded by | Dr. Asish Banerjee |
| Constituency | Singur |
| Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation | |
| In office 21 November 2012 – 10 May 2016 | |
| Governor | M. K. Narayanan |
| Preceded by | Chandranath Sinha |
| Succeeded by | Asish Banerjee |
| Constituency | Singur |
| Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2001–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Bidyut Kumar Das |
| Succeeded by | Becharam Manna |
| Constituency | Singur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1932-09-01) 1 September 1932 (age 91) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (2021 - present) |
| Other political affiliations | All India Trinamool Congress (1998-2021) |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence(s) | Singur, Hooghly district, West Bengal |
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Rabindranath Bhattacharjee is an Indian politician.[1] He is also an MLA, elected from the Singur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Bhattacharjee better known as “Mastermoshai” which means teacher.[2]
In 2001, Bhattacharjee won the Singur constituencyasAll India Trinamool Congress. He was instrumental in mobilizing land acquisition of a proposed Tata Nano factory in Singur. This was one of the causes which led to the defeat of the longest-serving democratically elected Communist government in the world, ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front government, a fact that was noted by the international media.[3] From May 2011 to November 2012, he was Minister for Agriculture in Mamata Banerjee ministry and was Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation November 2012 to May 2016.[4] In 2021 elections, All India Trinamool Congress denied a ticket for Bhattacharjee. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party and became the candidate from Singur.[5][6]
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