Shyamali Pradhan (born 2 August 1972[1]) is an Indian politician and former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. She was elected as the representative the Nanoor constituency in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).[2] Pradhan is a member of the party state committee from the Birbhum district in West Bengal.[3]
Shyamali Pradhan | |
|---|---|
| Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2016–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Gadhadhar Hazra |
| Succeeded by | Bidhan Chandra Majhi |
| Constituency | Nanoor constituency |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 August 1972 |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Alma mater | University of Burdwan |
Personal life edit
Shyamali Pradhan is a resident of Nanoor town in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal belonging to a Scheduled Caste family. She graduated from the Chandidas Mahavidyalaya affiliated to the University of Burdwan.[4]
Political career edit
In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Shyamali Pradhan was nominated to contest from the Nanoor constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), one of the constituent parties of the Left Front coalition.[5] She lost the election to the opposition candidate Gadadhar Hazra of the Trinamool Congress while polling at 46.07% of the votes cast against 49.21% in favor of Hazra.[6]
In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, she was re-nominated as the candidate of the party from the constituency.[7][2] The anti-communist Trinamool Congress[8] in the prior four years had reportedly engaged in political repression through intimidation and violence against volunteers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and later became the subject of factional infighting with the emergence of two local factions in the Nanoor constituency, one of which openly backed Pradhan's candidacy during the campaigning period.[7] She was subsequently elected as the representative from the constituency polling at 50.07% of the votes cast against 37.73% of the votes cast in favor of the incumbent Hazra.[2] In light of the election results, a spate of political violence erupted between the two Trinamool Congress factions with Hazra's faction attacking the other. The leadership of the Trinamool Congress reacted to the incident by claiming that the infighting was orchestrated by the communists which was denied by Pradhan.[9]
In 2019, she was inducted as the Birbhum representative in the West Bengal state committee of the Communist Party.[3]
References edit
- ^ "Elected Members". West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
- ^ a b c "West Bangal General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India.
- ^ a b Chakraborty, Sandip (19 October 2019). "The Fight Now is Between Indian Nationalism and Hindutva Nationalism: Yechury". NewsClick. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "Shyamali Pradhan". myneta.info. Association for Democratic Reforms.
- ^ Gupta, Smita (18 April 2016). "Bardhaman's sanguinary tales". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "West Bengal 2011". Election Commission of India.
- ^ a b Mishra, Mayank (26 April 2016). "Aggressive TMC versus a timid Opposition". Business Standard. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "The Anti-Communist of West Bengal". Forbes. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ Ghoshal, Aniruddha (25 May 2016). "Nanoor clash in West Bengal: 'TMC worker's life could have been saved'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 15 November 2020.