Chandan Mitra

Chandan Mitra
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
27 August 2003 – 26 August 2009
ConstituencyNominated
In office
30 June 2010 – 29 June 2016
ConstituencyMadhya Pradesh
Personal details
Born(1954-12-12)12 December 1954
Howrah, West Bengal, India
Died1 September 2021(2021-09-01) (aged 65)
Delhi, India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (2018-2021)
Other political
affiliations
Bharatiya Janata Party (2010-2018)
SpouseSwati Mitra (1977-1999) Shobori Ganguli
Children2 (Kushan Mitra, Shakya Mitra)
Parent
  • Monindra Nath Mitra (father)
EducationDelhi University (BA, MA)
Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil)
ProfessionJournalist

Chandan Mitra (Bengali: চন্দন মিত্র; 12 December 1954 – 1 September 2021) was an Indian journalist and politician who was the editor and managing director of The Pioneer[1] newspaper in Delhi.

He was also a two-term member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, serving between 2003 and 2009 as a nominated member from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and between 2003 and 2009 as an elected member from the state of Madhya Pradesh, again from BJP. He quit BJP and joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 2018.[2]

  1. ^ "Editor and ex-MP Chandan Mitra passes away". The Times of India. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  2. ^ "BJP now 'government-in-waiting' In Bengal, says TMC's Chandan Mitra". Moneycontrol. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020. Chandan Mitra, a former BJP cadre, who joined TMC last year, admitted that he was taken aback by the saffron party's spectacular performance