Summary
Pratima Bhoumik (born 28 May 1969) is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Second Modi ministry since 7 July 2021.[1] She is the first-ever resident from Tripura to become a minister in the union cabinet.[2] In 2019, she was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party[3] having defeated sitting MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress candidate Subal Bhowmick by a huge margin. She was also elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 2023 from the Dhanpur Assembly constituency, but resigned from the position only a few days later to retain her Lok Sabha membership and ministerial berth. Since 2016, she has also been a State General Secretary of the BJP Tripura unit.
Pratima Bhoumik | |
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| Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment | |
| Assumed office 7 July 2021 Serving with Ramdas Athawale and A. Narayanaswamy | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Virendra Kumar Khatik |
| Preceded by | Rattan Lal Kataria |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sankar Prasad Datta |
| Constituency | Tripura West |
| Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura | |
| In office 2 March 2023 – 15 March 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Manik Sarkar |
| Succeeded by | Bindu Debnath |
| Constituency | Dhanpur |
| General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tripura | |
| Assumed office 6 January 2016 | |
| President | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 May 1969 Barnarayan, Sepahijala, Tripura, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
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| Residence(s) | Agartala, Tripura, India |
| Alma mater | Women's College, Agartala |
| Source: [1] | |
As party whip of Lok Sabha edit
Smt. Pratima Bhoumik has expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for including her in the party's Lok Sabha whip list.[4]
As a Member of Parliament edit
Pratima Bhoumik was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, from Tripura West.[5] After the result was formally declared, in an interview with IANS, the 50-year-old science graduate, Pratima Bhowmik, said: "I would work for the all-round development of the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah's development mantra and vision are our future course of action for the welfare of the people." [citation needed]
"To fulfill Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's vision to make Tripura a model state, we would all together work to achieve the dream," Bhowmik, General Secretary of the BJP's state unit, told. [citation needed]
Bhowmik, securing 5,73,532 votes (51.77 percent of the valid votes polled) won the Tripura West seat defeating her Congress rival Subal Bhowmik by a margin of 3,05,689 votes, would be the second Lok Sabha member from Tripura after Congress' Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi, also former Tripura minister, who won in 1991. [citation needed]
Lok Sabha Standing Committee edit
- Member, Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
- Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House
Contribution of the first salary edit
Pratima Bhowmik, the Lok Sabha MP from Tripura West parliamentary constituency, donated Rs 1,00,000 from her first month's salary for Assam flood relief. At least 67 people have died and 33,55,837 have been affected in the deluge that has inundated over 2,000 villages in 17 districts of Assam.[6][7][8]
Union Minister edit
She became Minister of State Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened.[9] She became first Central Minister from Tripura.[10]
References edit
- ^ "Cabinet Reshuffle: The full list of Modi's new ministers and what they got". The Economic Times. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Pratima Bhowmik: First Tripura resident to make it to Union cabinet". 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Pratima Bhoumik(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- TRIPURA WEST(TRIPURA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
- ^ "BJP forms new parliamentary party executive; Modi leader in Lok Sabha, Rajnath his deputy". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 12 June 2019.
- ^ "Members : Lok Sabha".
- ^ "Tripura MP Pratima Bhowmik donates first salary for Assam flood relief » Northeast Today". 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Tripura MP donates Rs 1 lakh from her first salary for Assam flood relief".
- ^ "Tripura MP Donates Rs 1,00,000 from First Salary for Assam Flood Relief". 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Modi cabinet rejig: Full list of new ministers". India Today. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Pratima Bhoumik becomes first politician from Tripura to join Union Cabinet". India Today. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
External links edit
- Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website