Paresh Chandra Adhikary
Minister of State For School Education, Government of West Bengal
In office
10 May 2021 – 3 August 2022
MinisterBratya Basu
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
DepartmentSchool and Higher Education
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2 May 2021
Preceded byArghya Roy Pradhan
ConstituencyMekliganj
In office
1991–1996
Preceded bySada Kanta Roy
Succeeded byRamesh Roy
In office
2001–2016
Preceded byRamesh Roy
Succeeded byArghya Roy Pradhan
Chairman of Rogi Kalyan Samiti,
Mekhliganj Sub-divisional Hospital
Assumed office
5 August 2022
Personal details
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Other political
affiliations		All India Forward Bloc (till 2018)[1]
Residence(s)Mekliganj, Cooch Behar district, West Bengal
Alma materMekhliganj High School
ProfessionPolitician

Paresh Chandra Adhikary is an Indian politician from AITC(till August 2022). In May 2021, he was elected as the member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Mekliganj.[2][3]

Career

Adhikary hails from Mekliganj, Cooch Behar district.[4] His father's name is Dutta Narayan Adhikary.[5] He passed Higher Secondary Examination from Mekhliganj High School, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in 1970. Paresh Chandra Adhikary became MLA for the first time in 1991 after winning the Forward Bloc ticket. Although he lost the 1996 assembly elections, he continued to win for the Forward Bloc in 2001, 2006 and 2011. He was the Acting Food Minister of the Left Front Government in West Bengal from 2006 to 2011. In 2019, he left the Forward Bloc and joined the Trinamool Congress. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he contested from Cooch Behar Lok Sabha on Trinamul Congress ticket. But Adhikary lost to BJP candidate Nisith Pramanik. In the 2021 assembly elections, he won the Mekhliganj assembly seat again and became the MLA and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made Paresh Chandra Adhikary the state minister for Department of School Education in the State.

Controversy

On 17 May 2022, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed CBI to interrogate Adhikary for alleged appointment of his daughter Ankita Adhikary as a teacher in government aided school.[6][7] The Court also urged Chief Minister and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to remove Adhikary from the post of Minister.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "West Bengal: Paresh Adhikary joining TMC not to affect party, says AIFB". 18 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Adhikary Paresh Chandra | West Bengal Assembly Election Results Live, Candidates News, Videos, Photos". News18. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Adhikary Paresh Chandra Election Results 2021: News, Votes, Results of West-bengal Assembly". NDTV.com. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Adhikary Paresh Chandra(All India Trinamool Congress(AITC)):Constituency- COOCH BEHAR(WEST BENGAL) - Affidavit Information of Candidate:". myneta.info. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Election Commission of India". affidavit.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Calcutta High Court directs CBI to interrogate West Bengal Minister for appointment of daughter". The Hindu. PTI. 17 May 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 May 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE | Meet Petitioner Who Allegedly Lost Teaching Job to Minister's Daughter Due to 'West Bengal Recruitment Scam'". News18. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Calcutta HC directs CBI to question MoS School Education 'over appointment of daughter'". The Indian Express. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "SSC Scam: Bengal Minister 'DISAPPEARS' with daughter after the CBI summon". Zee News. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "WB SSC Scam: Bengal Minister 'DISAPPEARS' with daughter after the CBI summon". Sangbad Ekalavya (in Bengali). 19 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
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