Ritabrata Banerjee


Ritabrata Banerjee is an Indian politician. He was a former General Secretary of the Students' Federation of India. Ritabrata Banerjee was elected a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal in February 2014. He is the only Member of Parliament who held the responsibility of SFI General Secretary at the same time.
His tenure in the Rajya Sabha is over.
He was expelled from CPIM due to some unethical work. He is state secretary of All India Trinamool Congress now and observer of AITC Alipurduars District Unit.

Early life

Ritabrata Banerjee has attended school at South Point High School, Kolkata, and obtained BA degree from Asutosh College and MA degrees in English at Calcutta University. He is a full-time political activist and a former General Secretary of the Student Union in his college.

Political controversy

He has been alleged along with other young comrades for harassment of Finance minister of West Bengal Mr. Amit Mitra in New Delhi. In the month of April, 2013 in a protest program organised by Student Federation of India before the Planning Commission, few young members of the student organisation harassed Mr. Mitra. Some allegations for his extravagant lifestyle have been spread out over social media on 17 February 2017.
He was suspended from CPM party membership on 2 June 2017 for 3 months pending investigations to the allegations of moral turpitude & leaking party secrets to the press. On 10 October, 2017 a lady named Namrata Dutta filed a complaint against Banerjee in Balurghat Police Station for sexual exploitation by promising marriage. Ritabrata denied the accusation claiming the women was extorting money from him asked him for 50 Lakhs not to file and FIR and uploaded screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation in which she asked him for money. Subsequently, CID, West Bengal served a notice to him. Ritabrata was expelled by the CPM after an interview to ABP Ananda television channel in which he spoke against Mohammed Salim and Ritabrata claimed that he was not against the party and only against Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat and Mohammed Salim.