Becharam Manna information

Becharam Manna
Becharam Manna
Minister of State (Independent Charge), Labour; Government of West Bengal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 May 2021
Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Moloy Ghatak
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Rabindranath Bhattacharjee
Constituency	Singur
	In office; 13 May 2011 – 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Bharati Mukherjee, CPI(M)
Succeeded by	Karabi Manna
Constituency	Haripal
Personal details
Political party	Trinamool Congress
Spouse	Karabi Manna

Becharam Manna is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress. He won the Haripal seat by a margin of 22,000 votes, in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly elections. Becharam Manna is one of the architects of Singur Land movement and leader of mass movement against the then Left Front Government. He along with his close associates worked at the grassroot level to organise distressed farmers, bargadars, sharecroppers, agricultural laborer's etc who were aggrieved and showing protest, dharnas, rally at the work site to gain the mass and media attention. The Singur seat was retained by the sitting Trinamool Congress MLA, Rabindranath Bhattacharya.^[1]^[2] He also became Minister of State of the Agriculture Department, Government of West Bengal for few days.^[3] and he later joined BJP and contested from Singur Assembly Constituency as BJP candidate in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election in the year 2021 but he got defeated and Becharam Manna elected from Singur Assembly Constituency in the year 2021. Becharam Manna is well versed with three tire Panchyati Raj System. He contested in several Panchyat elections. In the early days of his political career, he was contested in the three-tire Panchyat election and first time elected as Gram Panchyat member of Singur-II Gram Panchyat in the year 1993. Then he again participated in three-tire Panchyat election in the year 2008 and elected as a member in the Singur Panchyat Samity and then he became Sahakari-Sabapati of Singur Panchyat Samity in the Year 2008. After that for the first time he contested in the West Bengal Assembly Election in the year 2011 from Haripal Assembly Constituency as TMC candidate and elected from that constituency. He also became a member of the Cabinet as Minister-Of-state constituted under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, who defeated CPIM (Left Front) and ended 34 years of ruling. During 2012 to 2015, he served as Minister-Of-State of different dept. of Government Of West Bengal e.g. Agriculture Dept., Agriculture-Marketing dept., Land and Land Reforms dept.

He was the first person to challenge the Tata group at Singur, when the Nano plant was being constructed.^[4] He is the convener of Krishi Jami Raksha Samiti, a group agitating for the protection of agricultural land.^[5] At 2021 Elections in West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made a candidate from Singur and his wife from his constituency Haripal. They both won in the election. After the election Mamta Banarjee made him Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Department of Labour (West Bengal). During early reshuffling of Cabinet, he has been conferred with the charge of Minister Of State (Independent Charge) for Agriculture Marketing Department along with Minister Of State for Panchayat and Rural Development Department, Government of West Bengal.

^ "Haripal". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 May 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Singur". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
^ "Singur MLA shares dais with Becharam Manna". timesofindia.com. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Bengal polls: Singur's 'Nano' politics". NDTV 10 April 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
^ "The world of Becharam Manna". The Times of India. 3 October 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

[1] "Haripal". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 May 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Singur". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

[3] "Singur MLA shares dais with Becharam Manna". timesofindia.com. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2017.

[4] "Bengal polls: Singur's 'Nano' politics". NDTV 10 April 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

[manna-5] "The world of Becharam Manna". The Times of India. 3 October 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

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Becharam Manna


Minister of State (Independent Charge), Labour Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 May 2021
Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Moloy Ghatak
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Rabindranath Bhattacharjee
Constituency	Singur
In office 13 May 2011 – 2 May 2021
Preceded by	Bharati Mukherjee, CPI(M)
Succeeded by	Karabi Manna
Constituency	Haripal

Personal details
Political party	Trinamool Congress
Spouse	Karabi Manna