Sudip Bandyopadhyay: News

Sudip Bandyopadhyay is a politician of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) and a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from West Bengal. He joined the Indian National Congress (INC) in the late 1970s and got elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Bowbazar constituency in 1987. He successfully retained the seat in the 1991 and 1996 elections. In 1998, he resigned from INC as well as the WB Assembly, and along with Mamata Banerjee, became one of the founding members of the AITC. Bandyopadhyay won from Calcutta North West in the 1998 Lok Sabha polls and was re-elected in the 1999 elections to serve a second term till 2004. In the 2006 WB Assembly elections, he was elected for the fourth time from Bowbazar. Bandyopadhyay returned to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Kolkata Uttar (Calcutta North) constituency and has been the Leader of AITC in the house since 2011. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha successively in the 2014 and 2019 General Elections.

02 May 2018

Narendra Modi

Here's why railway-station benches will soon carry local MPs' name

The Railways is planning to install 1L benches at 1,500 stations across the country through a unique sponsorship scheme: local MPS will fund these benches, costing Rs. 12,000-30,000 each, and in turn, their name will be etched on the bench.