Babul Supriyo

Babul Supriyo
Supriyo in 2018
Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 August 2022
Governor
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Ministry and DepartmentInformation Technology and Electronics
Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction
Tourism
Preceded byPartha Chatterjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 April 2022
Preceded bySubrata Mukherjee
ConstituencyBallygunge
Majority20,030
Minister of State, Government of India
In office
31 May 2019 – 7 July 2021
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
MinisterPrakash Javadekar
MoS ofMinistry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Preceded byMahesh Sharma
In office
12 July 2016 – 30 May 2019
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
MoS ofMinistry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Preceded byG.M. Siddeshwara
Succeeded byArjun Ram Meghwal
In office
9 November 2014 – 12 July 2016
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
MoS ofMinistry of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
23 May 2014 – 22 October 2021
Preceded byBansa Gopal Chowdhury
Succeeded byShatrughan Sinha
ConstituencyAsansol
Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture
In office
1 September 2014 – 9 November 2014
Appointed bySumitra Mahajan
Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Personal details
Born
Babul Supriyo Baral

(1970-12-15) 15 December 1970 (age 53)
Uttarpara, West Bengal, India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (2021–present)[1]
Other political
affiliations		Bharatiya Janata Party (2014–2021)
Spouses
  • Riaa
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    (m. 1995; div. 2015)​
  • Rachna Sharma
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    (m. 2016)​
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.Com)
Signature
Occupations
  • Politician
  • actor
  • playback singer
Awards
WebsiteMinistry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change

Babul Supriyo (born 15 December 1970)[2][3] is an Indian playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician who currently serves as Cabinet Minister of Information Technology and Electronics of the Government of West Bengal. He was elected Member of Parliament from Asansol in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha and also served as the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in the Union Council of Ministers. He officially resigned as MP on 19 October 2021[4] and was elected as a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on 16 April 2022 from Ballygunge Assembly seat.[5]

He started his career as playback singer in Hindi cinema in the mid-nineties and has sung for many films since then. He primarily sings in Hindi, Bengali, and Odia languages. However, he has also done playback singing in 11 other languages during his musical career. He entered politics in 2014 and joined Narendra Modi's government. He previously served as Union Minister of State for Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

Supriyo quit the Bharatiya Janata Party and joined the All India Trinamool Congress Party in September 2021.[6]

  1. ^ "2 months after he was dropped at Centre, BJP MP Babul Supriyo joins TMC". Atri Mitra, Liz Mathew. The Indian Express. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Sixteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile: Baral, Shri Babul Supriya (Babul Supriyo)". Lok Sabha Secretariat. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Babul Supriya (Babul Supriyo) Baral". National Portal of India. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  4. ^ "babul supriyo formally resigns as MP - The Hindu". The Hindu. 19 October 2021. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021.
  5. ^ "bjp: BJP draws a blank in 5 bypolls across 4 states | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Babul Supriyo, Till Recently A Union Minister, Joins Team Mamata". NDTV.com. Retrieved 19 September 2021.