Manas Bhunia

Manas Bhunia মানস ভূঁইয়া
MP(elect) of Rajya Sabha for West Bengal
Taking office 19 August 2017
Succeeding	Debabrata Bandyopadhyay
Minister for Irrigation and Waterways
In office May 20, 2011 – September 25,2012
Preceded by	Subhas Naskar
Constituency	Sabang
Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile
In office May 20, 2011 – Sept, 25,2012
Succeeded by	Mamata banerjee
Constituency	Sabang
MLA
In office 1982-1996,2001-2017 – 24 July 2017 (Resigned)
Constituency	Sabang
President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
In office 23 October 2008 – 17 January 2011
Preceded by	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Succeeded by	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Personal details
Born	(1951-12-10) 10 December 1951 Sabang, Paschim Medinipur
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress (2016- Incumbent) Indian National Congress (1982-2016)
Residence	Kolkata

Manas Bhunia is an Indian politician and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the Government of West Bengal.^[1] He is also an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011.he along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after I.N.C. took back the support from the state government.He joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 2016.

On 26 August 2015, he accused West Bengal police forces of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement.^[2] On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members.^[3]

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