Chandrima Bhattacharya is a senior Trinamool Congress leader and a key member of the West Bengal government headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She is currently the MLA from Dum Dum Uttar, a seat she won in the 2021 Assembly elections and is contesting again this time.
She defeated Tanmoy Bhattacharya of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), a victory that saw her return to the constituency after having previously represented it in 2011.
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Over the years, she has also held several important positions in the state government, starting with her appointment to Mamata Banerjee’s first cabinet in 2011, followed by her appointment as junior law minister in 2012, and her subsequent elevation to the ministerial rank with independent assignment, marking her steady rise within the government structure.
5 Key Facts about Chandrima Bhattacharya
- Before entering politics full-time, Bhattacharya was a practicing lawyer at the Calcutta High Court after obtaining her LLB from the University of Calcutta in 1976.
- She was first appointed to the Mamata Banerjee-led state government in 2011, right after the formation of the TMC government in West Bengal.
- In 2012, she was initially appointed as a junior Minister for Law, before being promoted later the same year to Cabinet Minister independently responsible for the Department of Law and the Judiciary.
- In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, Chandrima Bhattacharya of Kanthi Dakshin contested as the All India Trinamool Congress candidate and won the seat defeating Arup Kumar Das of CPI(M)
- Chandrima Bhattacharya is contesting in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections from Dum Dum Uttar constituency, where she is an MLA of the All India Trinamool Congress.
