Asish Banerjee


Asish Banerjee is an Indian politician and minister in charge of the Department of Agriculture in the government of West Bengal.
He is also M.L.A of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Elected from the 291, Rampurhat four times.

Early life

Asish Banerjee was born in Rampurhat Birbhum district in West Bengal. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees from Burdwan University. He also completed his PhD at the same university. During this period he was elected General Secretary of University Student'ls Council.

Career

After he completing his education at Burdwan University, Banerjee was an associate professor of Bengali at Rampurhat College under Burdwan University.
He was elected as M.L.A from Rampurhat in 2001 and subsequently re-elected from same constituency in 2006, 2011 and 2016. Banerjee first time sworn in as a Minister of State under chief minister Mamata Banerjee in 2014 and allotted the independent charge of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. The next year he was nominated for minister in charge for Department of Biotechnology, Department of Statistics and Programme implementation, Planning.