Sabitri Mitra

Who is Sabitri Mitra?

Sabitri Mitra is an Indian politician, belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress, and the present Minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare in the Government of West Bengal. She is also an MLA, elected from the Manikchak constituency in the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011. She earlier served as MLA of Araidanga constituency in Malda district from 1991 until 2011, when she defected from the Indian National Congress to join the Trinamool Congress. In the 2011 election, she won the Manikchak constituency with 64,641 votes, defeating her immediate rival, Ratna Bhattacharya of the CPI by 6,217 votes. She was sworn in as the Minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare by the Governor on the advice of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She is one of the 34 ministers in the Council of Ministers of West Bengal, who hold the Cabinet Minister rank. She was earlier affiliated with the Indian National Congress party but defected to the Trinamool Congress in 2011. She also served as the Vice-President of the West Bengal People's Congress Committee during her affiliation with the INC. Her strained relationship with WBPCC President and now Minister for Irrigation & Inland Waterways and Small & Micro Enterprises and Textiles in the Government of West Bengal, Manas Bhunia, has been widely publicized.