Abhishek Banerjee (politician)

Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.[4] He was born and raised in Kolkata, India Banerjee attended Nava Nalanda High School and M.P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School both in Kolkata. Later, Banerjee moved to Delhi and pursued his B.B.A. and M.B.A. in Human Resource and Marketing from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM),[3] New Delhi in 2009. Banerjee married Smt. Rujira Banerjee on 24 February 2012. He has two children, a daughter named Azania and a son named Aayansh.[3]

Abhishek Banerjee joined politics as a member of All India Trinamool Congress in 2011 after the party had uprooted 34 years of Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front regime by winning the Assembly Election in the same year. Abhishek Banerjee was recognised as the youth icon of All India Trinamool Congress when he was selected as the National President of All India Trinamool Youth Congress in 2011.[5]

In 2014, Banerjee contested the Lok Sabha Elections on behalf of All India Trinamool Congress as a candidate from the constituency of Diamond Harbour and won by a significant margin defeating the nearest opponent from Communist Party of India (Marxist).[6] At that time, Banerjee was the youngest parliamentarian in the lower house.[7] He had also arranged the M.P Cup Football Tournament[8] in his constituency to inspire the youth to engage in sports and physical activities. After the successful completion of his first tenure, Banerjee won the 2019 Lok Sabha Election from Diamond Harbour with a margin of 1,20,594 votes, defeating the nearest opponent from BJP.[9]

In the year 2020 Abhishek in association with TMC launched Banglar Jubo Shakti where his motive was to get 100000+ youths get registered to it, where they can help people of West Bengal In distress.[10]