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Gyan Singh Sohanpal

Gyan Singh Sohanpal
Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
May 18, 2011 – May 30, 2011
President Pranab Mukherjee
Governor M. K. Narayanan
Preceded by Hashim Abdul Halim
Succeeded by Biman Banerjee
Constituency Kharagpur Sadar
Personal details
Born Gyan Singh Sohanpal
(1925-01-11)11 January 1925
Died 8 August 2017(2017-08-08) (aged 92)
Nationality Indian
Political party Indian National Congress
Alma mater Midnapore Collegiate School

Gyan Singh Sohanpal (11 January 1925 – 8 August 2017), was an Indian politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He is affectionately known as Chacha Ji ("Uncle" in English) in his constituency of Kharagpur Sadar.

He contested his first election in 1962 and became a minister in 1969 in Ajoy Mukherjee’s cabinet, taking charge of Small Industries and Jails. In Siddhartha Shankar Ray’s cabinet, he was the Minister for Transport, Jail and Parliamentary Affairs. He has represented Khragpur since 1982, and in the 2011 election, he defeated Anil Kumar Das of the CPI(M) by over 32,000 votes. Following that election, he was the most senior Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal and served briefly as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He was sworn in as the Speaker by Governor M. K. Narayanan on May 18, 2011.



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