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Subrata Mukherjee
Minister for Public Health Engineering & for Panchayat and Rural Development
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2011
Preceded by	Gautam Deb & Surjya Kanta Mishra
MLA
In office 1971–1977
Preceded by	Jyoti Bhusan Bhattacharya
Succeeded by	Sachin Sen
Constituency	Ballygunge
MLA
In office 1996–2006
Preceded by	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Succeeded by	Subrata Bakshi
Constituency	Chowranghee
Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
In office 12 July 2000 – 5 July 2005
Preceded by	Prasanta Chatterjee
Succeeded by	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya
Constituency	Ward No. 87
MLA
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 May 2011
Preceded by	Ahmed Javed Khan
Constituency	Ballygunge
Minister of Information and Cultural Affairs Government of West Bengal
In office 2 April 1972 – 21 June 1977
Succeeded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Constituency	Ballygunge
MLA
In office 1982–1996
Preceded by	Haripada Bharati
Succeeded by	Sanjoy Bakshi
Constituency	Jorabagan
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-22)22 September 1946
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress Indian National Congress
Residence	Calcutta, India (present-day Kolkata, India)
Alma mater	University of Calcutta (M.A.) Bangabasi College
Religion	Hindu

All India Trinamool Congress

University of Calcutta (M.A.)

Subrata Mukherjee is an Indian politician who has been Minister for Public Health Engineering in the Government of West Bengal since 2011. He is a MLA, elected from the Ballygunge constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He has been Village Development and Panchyat Minister since 27 December 2011.

In 1999, he joined hands with Mamata Banerjee, parting ways with the Indian National Congress. This decision came from the Congress MLA, as INTUC denied him of the nomination to the governing body of the ILO for the second term. He was made the Mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2000, as a Trinamool Congress candidate. However, even after being the Mayor as a Trinamool leader, he decided not to resign as a Congress member of the Legislative Assembly. As Mayor, he had dreamt of a 300 ft-high Kolkata gate on EM Bypass, which would have cost Rs. 20-crore. However, the project could not see the daylight, as it could not obtain clearance from the Pollution Control Board.

Ahead of the civic polls in 2005, Mukherjee quit Trinamool Congress following differences with the party chief and returned to the Congress. In May 2010, he left the Indian National Congress again and rejoined Trinamool Congress, leaving the post of Pradesh Congress Working President.

In 2011, after the Trinamool Congress won a majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made Minister for Public Health Engineering under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In December 2011, he was given the additional charge of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development ministry, and replaced Chandranath Sinha.

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