Ujjal Biswas is an Indian politician and the present Minister of the Science, Technology and Bio-Technology department in the Government of West Bengal.[1] Till 2022, he was the minister for correctional administration. He is also an MLA, elected from the Krishnanagar Dakshin constituency of Nadia district in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[2][3][4]
Ujjal Biswas | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Science, Technology & Bio-technology Government of West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 3 August 2022 | |
| Governor | C .V. Ananda Bose |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Ratna De (Nag) |
| Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office May 13, 2011 | |
| Constituency | Krishnanagar Dakshin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 June 1954 Krishnanagar, Nadia |
| Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Residence | Krishnanagar |
Family
editUjjal Biswas is from a Mahishya family of freedom fighters who participated in various agitations against the British rule such as Indigo revolt leader Digambar Biswas under whose leadership the indigo farmers protested against the European Indigo planters.
Anushilan Samiti revolutionary Basanta Kumar Biswas and also, freedom fighter Manmathanath Biswas also happen to be from the same family.[5]
References
edit- ^ MP, Team (4 August 2022). "Eight new faces inducted in Bengal ministry, 4 dropped". MillenniumPost. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ Mamata allots portfolios, keeps key ministries
- ^ "All the didis men". Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet". Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
- ^ NANDI, SOUMITRA (20 October 2017). "Story of Basanta Biswas, penned by Ujjal Biswas, to be portrayed on celluloid". www.millenniumpost.in. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
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