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Somnath Chatterjee (born July 25, 1929 in Tezpur, Assam) is a politician in India. He is currently the Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha (House of the people). July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Tezpur in the state of Assam, India, is an ancient town on the banks of the river Brahmaputra. ...
Assam (Assamese: অসম, Hindi: असम; Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur. ...
The term Speaker is usually the title given to the presiding officer of a countrys lower house of parliament or congress. ...
Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. ...
Chatterjee is a member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist. He joined the party in 1968. In 1971, he was given a ticket to contest an interim election caused by the death of his father who was elected from that constituency. He became a Member of the Lok Sabha in 1971 and was elected the first time as an independent candidate supported by the CPI (M). Subsequently he was re-elected 9 times, except once when he was trounced by Mamata Banerjee in the Jadavpur constituency in 1984. He now represents Bolpur parliamentary constituency which is considered a red bastion. He has been a member of Parliament of 10 different houses. In the 10th Lok Sabha he was elected leader of his party. In 1996 he won the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. During Jyoti Basu's tenure, he was the Chairman of WBIDC and in that capacity he made countless overseas trips to promote FDI in West Bengal. His penchant for signing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), many of which never came to fruition, earned him the nickname Mou-da. With Buddhadeb Bhattacharya becoming the Chief Minister, Somnath's influence within the party and the state government has waned considerably although as Speaker of the Lok Sabha he has a constitutional position of importance. CPI(M) flag The Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), is a political party in India. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Mamata Banerjee is the founder and chief executive of the All India Trinamool Congress Party, now known as the Trinamool Congress Party (Grassroots Congress Party). ...
Jadavpur is a ward of Kolkata and home to Jadavpur University, a world-class institution on whose faculty 1998 Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen served. ...
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The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award is an award given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to an outstanding sitting Member of the Indian Parliament. ...
Jyoti Basu (born July 8, 1914) is a Communist politician from West Bengal, India. ...
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) is a legal document describing an agreement between parties. ...
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (or Buddhadev Bhattacharya) is the Chief Minister of West Bengal (India) since 2000-2001. ...
In 2005, he was caught in a controversy over his statement on the Supreme Court orders related to the vote of confidence in the Jharkhand Assembly. He said that the Supreme Court was encroaching the right of the Legislature by issuing orders on the proceedings of the Jharkhand Assembly. He asked for a Presidential refernce to the Supreme Court under Article 143 of the Indian Constitution. This remark was not well taken by BJP which supported the Supreme Court's decisions.The Opposition has demanded his resignation because he holds an office of profit as Chairman of Santiniketan Sriniketan Development Authority (SSDA).He has argued that since SSDA is a perpetually loss-making body he cannot possibly hold an office of profit. The Supreme Court of India is the highest court of the land as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India. ...
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The Constitution of India was passed by the Constituent Assembly of India on November 26, 1949, and came into effect on January 26, 1950. ...
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Chatterjee has had many aberrations with the highest court and is widely considered as the first speaker who is a dictator. His tolerance of criticism is too low.
Chatterjee was educated at Mitra Institution School (Calcutta), Presidency College and then Calcutta University in Calcutta. He also attended Cambridge University and was called to the bar in England. He was a litigating barrister at the Calcutta High Court before joining active politics. Kolkata (Bangla: (?) কলকাতা) (formerly ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. ...
The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
Personal life
The father of Somnath Chatterjee, Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, was the president of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, an organization that championed Hindu causes and a forerunner of today's BJP. Later he left Hindu Mahasabha to join left politics and was elected to the Parliament with CPI (M) support. Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organization, was originally founded in 1915 to counter the Muslim League and the secular Indian National Congress. ...
In 1950, Somnath married Renu Chatterjee and has one son, Pratap Chatterjee, and 2 daughters Rita and Nita. Both his grandsons Shaswata and Saurabh have left India and now work in the USA. His nickname is Habul and in his early childhood after a bout of nephritis he lost eyesight in one of his eyes-a fact not widely known. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Pratap Chatterjee is an Indian investigative journalist and progressive author. ...
Political Career Shri Somnath Chatterjee began his career as a lawyer and joined active politics in 1968, when he became a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He has been one of the party’s leading spokesmen. His association with national politics began when he contested the elections to the Lok Sabha in 1971 and was elected the very first time. Since then, he has served as a member in all successive Lok Sabhas, getting elected for the tenth time in 2004 as a member of the present 14th Lok Sabha. The fact that he won the Lok Sabha elections with impressive margins testifies to his popularity with the masses, his standing in his party and his stature as a parliamentarian.
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