Dipali Biswas

Dipali Biswas (born 2 August 1970[1]) is an Indian politician and member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. She was elected as the representative of the Gazole constituency in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).[2] In 2018, she switched her party to Trinamool Congress and in 2020, she switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Dipali Biswas
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2016
Preceded bySushil Chandra Roy (INC)
ConstituencyGazole
Personal details
Born (1970-08-02) 2 August 1970
NationalityIndian
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations
OccupationPolitician

Personal life

Dipali Biswas is married to Ranjit Biswas and a resident of Gazole Town in the district of Malda, West Bengal.[3][4] She was educated at the Bardanga Raghunath High School and became a Integrated Child Development Services worker.[3]

Political career

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Dipali Biswas was nominated to contest from the Gazole constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The election resulted in Biswas emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 20,000 votes and polling at 43.47% of the votes cast against 32.95% of the votes cast in favor of Sushil Chandra Roy of the Trinamool Congress and 14.51% of the votes cast in favor of Sudhanshu Sarkar of the BJP.[2]

In 2018, she joined the Trinamool Congress party,[5] and on 19 December 2020, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.[6]

References
  1. "Elected Members". West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
  2. "West Bangal General Legislative Election 2016". Election Commission of India.
  3. "Dipali Biswas". myneta.info. Association for Democratic Reforms.
  4. "Dipali Biswas Affidavit" (PDF). Election Commission of India.
  5. Sen, Megna (19 December 2020). "Mamata's former aide Suvendu Adhikari joins BJP at Amit Shah's Midnapore rally". Livemint. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. "Suvendu Adhikari ends all speculation, joins BJP, delivers jolt to Mamata and TMC". India Today. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Sushil Chandra Roy (INC)		 Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
from Gazole (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
2016–		 Incumbent
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