Pravat Chowdhury | |
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Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura | |
In office 24 September 2014 – 2023 | |
Preceded by | Jitendra Choudhury |
Constituency | Manu ST |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Sabroom, South Tripura district | 28 December 1976
Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Spouse | Smt. Dipali Tripura (Chowdhury) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Lt. Krishna Kanta Chowdhury(Father) Smt. Dhanusri Chowdhury(Mother) |
Alma mater | Nagaland University |
Pravat Chowdhury (born 28 December 1976) is an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Chowdhury is a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly from the Manu (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in South Tripura district since 2014.[2][3][4][5] Chowdhury was elected in a 2014 bye-election to this seat, after the previous incumbent, Jitendra Choudhury, resigned to take his Lok Sabha seat for Tripura East after winning in 2014. Pravat Chowdhury won the bye-election by a landslide, leading by a record margin of nearly 16,000 votes.[6] Chowdhury won reelection to a full term during the 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, but this time by a much smaller margin. His victory by 193 votes, or 0.48%, against Dhananjoy Tripura of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura was the closest contest in the state.