Suvendu Adhikari

Suvendu Adhikari
Suvendu Adhikari
	Adhikari in 2021
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 May 2021
Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar; La. Ganesan (addl. charge); C. V. Ananda Bose
Deputy	Mihir Goswami
Preceded by	Abdul Mannan
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 May 2016
Preceded by	Firoja Bibi
Constituency	Nandigram
	In office; 2006–2009
Preceded by	Sisir Adhikari
Succeeded by	Dibyendu Adhikari
Constituency	Contai South
Minister for Transport, ; Government of West Bengal
	In office; 27 May 2016 – 27 November 2020
Governor	Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Aroop Biswas
Succeeded by	Mamata Banerjee
Minister of Environment, Government of West Bengal
	In office; 2018–2020
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Sovan Chatterjee
Succeeded by	Mamata Banerjee
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 16 May 2009 – 19 May 2016
Preceded by	Lakshman Chandra Seth
Succeeded by	Dibyendu Adhikari
Constituency	Tamluk
Chairperson of Jute Corporation of India
	In office; 31 December 2020 – 2 March 2021
Preceded by	Ajay Kumar Jolly
Personal details
Born	15 December 1970; Contai, West Bengal, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (2020–present)
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress (1995-2000); All India Trinamool Congress (2000-2020);
Parent	Sisir Adhikari (father);
Relatives	Dibyendu Adhikari (brother)
Residence(s)	Contai, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
Alma mater	Netaji Subhas Open University (M.A.)
Profession	Politician

Suvendu Adhikari (born 15 December 1970) is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly since 2021 and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandigram Assembly constituency since 2021 and from Contai South (Vidhan Sabha constituency) from 2006 to 2009. He previously served as the Minister of Transport from 2016 to 2020, Irrigation and Water resource from 2018 to 2020 in the Government of West Bengal. He was also a member of Lok Sabha from Tamluk from 2009 to 2016 and the chairperson of Jute Corporation of India from 2020 to 2021. He was a former member of the Trinamool Congress from 1998 to 2020 and Indian National Congress from 1995 to 1998. He is the son of Sisir Adhikari, Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of State for Rural Development in the Manmohan Singh government.

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