Asish Banerjee

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Asish Banerjee
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Minister of Biotechnology, Statistics and Programme Monitoring, Government of West Bengal
In office
2015–2016
Personal details
Born (1951-11-03) 3 November 1951 (age 72)
Associate Professor
at Rampurhat College, (until 2001)

Dr. Asish Banerjee is an Indian

All India Trinamool Congress, who was the minister in charge of the Department of Agriculture in the Government of West Bengal from 2017 to 2021.[1]
He is also

Early life

Asish Banerjee was born in Rampurhat

PhD
at the same university. During this period he was elected General Secretary of University Students' Council.

Career

After completing his education at

Burdwan University
.

MLA of Rampurhat

He was

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.[3]

In 2017, he took charge as the Agriculture Minister of

References

  1. ^ Banerjee, Asish (July 2017). "Agriculture Minister". wb.gov.in.
  2. ^ "Rampurhat Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Asish Banerjee replaces Purnendu Basu as state Agriculture minister". millenniumpost.in. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of State (Independent charge) of Ayush of Health and Family Welfare department in the
West Bengal Government

2014 – 20?
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister of State of the departments of School Education and Higher Education in the
West Bengal Government

2014 – 20?
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister of Science and Technology and Biotechnology department in the
West Bengal Government

Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Planning, Statistics & Programme Monitoring in the
Mamata Banerjee ministry (2016–2021)

2016 – 2017
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Purnendo Bose
Agriculture Minister of
Mamata Banerjee ministry (2016–2021)

2017 –
Succeeded by
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member of the 
Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
2001
Incumbent