: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: Bengals maverick politician #IndiaNEWS #Other News Kolkata, July 29 (IANS) Five-time Congress MP from West Bengals Berhampore constituency Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has recently

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: Bengals maverick politician #IndiaNEWS #Other News
Kolkata, July 29 (IANS) Five-time Congress MP from West Bengals Berhampore constituency Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has recently apologised after his Rashtrapatni remark went on to create a furore, has earned an image of being a maverick politician since his entry into the West Bengal Assembly way back in 1996.
However, such controversial comments from Chatterjee the president of the West Bengal unit of Congress, is nothing new. In 2019, which addressing the Motion of Thanks on Presidential address, he made a controversial statement while drawing a comparison between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and late former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi as he said, Kaha Maa Ganga, Kaha Gandi Naali.
In fact, his entry into the Bengal Assembly also marked the beginning of his spat with current West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was associated with Congress then.
In fact, Chowdhury contested the elections on behalf of Congress from the Nabagram assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in 1996 from behind the bars, as was imprisoned in connection with the murder of a CPI-M leader. However, despite that, he won by a margin of 20,000 votes.
That marked the beginning of the tiff with Mamata Banerjee, who vehemently opposed the entry of Chowdhury into the Assembly. She even went to the extent of tying a noose with her shawl and wrapping that around her neck in public as a mark of protest to Chowdhurys entry.
However, since then Chowdhury came to be known as a tough man and of uncompromising character of the Congress against the (then) strong ruling CPI-M organisation network throughout West Bengal in the late 90s and under his leadership, Congress started converting Murshidabad district as a strong base for the party.
In 1999, Chowdhury made his entry into the Lok Sabha by getting elected as a Congress candidate from Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad district. Since then, he did not have to look back and kept the Congress flag high from that Lok Sabha constituency till the latest in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when he won by margin of over 80,000 votes.
In 2005, Chowdhury had to spend about a month over a twin- murder charge but was released on bail soon.
That case is still pending. As per the affidavit filed by him with the Election Commission of India before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he has seven pending criminal cases against him including murder.
However, his personal popularity with a Robin Hood image made him the blue-eyed boy of the Congress central leadership especially the erstwhile Congress president, Sonia Gandhi.
In October 2012, he was made the minister of state for railways in the Manmohan Singh-led United Progress Alliance (UPA-II) government and finally in February 2014 he was made the state Congress president in West Bengal, the chair which he is still holding.

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