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Pratima Bhoumik | |
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| Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment | |
| In office 7 July 2021 – 11 June 2024 Serving with Ramdas Athawale and A. Narayanaswamy | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Virendra Kumar Khatik |
| Preceded by | Rattan Lal Kataria |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 23 May 2019 – 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Sankar Prasad Datta |
| Succeeded by | Biplab Kumar Deb |
| Constituency | Tripura West |
| Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura | |
| In office 2 March 2023 – 15 March 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Manik Sarkar |
| Succeeded by | Bindu Debnath |
| Constituency | Dhanpur |
| General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tripura | |
| Assumed office 6 January 2016 | |
| President | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 May 1969 Barnarayan, Sepahijala, Tripura, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Residence(s) | Agartala, Tripura, India |
| Alma mater | Women's College, Agartala |
| Source: [1] | |
Pratima Bhoumik (born 28 May 1969) is an Indian politician. She served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Second Modi ministry from 7 July 2021 to 11 June 2024.[1] She is the first-ever resident from Tripura to become a minister in the union cabinet.[2] In 2019, she was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party[3] having defeated sitting MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress candidate Subal Bhowmick by a huge margin. She was also elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 2023 from the Dhanpur Assembly constituency, but resigned from the position only a few days later to retain her Lok Sabha membership and ministerial berth. Since 2016, she has also been a State General Secretary of the BJP Tripura unit.
- ^ "Cabinet Reshuffle: The full list of Modi's new ministers and what they got". The Economic Times. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Pratima Bhowmik: First Tripura resident to make it to Union cabinet". 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Pratima Bhoumik(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- TRIPURA WEST(TRIPURA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".