Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya or Bikash Bhattacharya is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India. He served as Mayor of Kolkata from 2005–2010, heading the Kolkata municipal corporation, led by the Left Front in the state of West Bengal. He is also an eminent advocate practicing in the Calcutta High Court and has appeared in various landmark cases.Short biography
Bikash Bhattacharya hails from the Kalighat region of Kolkata. He joined the Communist Party of India as a student. He is a lawyer by profession. He took over the reins of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation from the outgoing Mayor Subroto Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress party. He was appointed as the Advocate General of Tripura for 5 years. Being a senior advocate he leads various remarkable cases like "Saradha", "Narada sting operation" etc. Recently, he has become the poster-boy of TMC government opposition by his cascading eloquence and fiery oratory. He fought from the Jadavpur Loksabha constituency in 2019 Loksabha election for CPI in which he faced defeat and received third position behind Mimi Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress party and Anupam Hazra of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
