Baishali Dalmiya is the director of the construction company M L Dalmiya & Co. Ltd. She is a former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. From 2016 to April 2021 she represented the

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. She is daughter of Indian cricket administrator and businessman

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. She joined politics in 2016, shortly after her father's death, and joined the

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, was given the ticket to contest the assembly election from the

, and was subsequently elected to the state assembly. On 22 January 2021, Baishali Dalmiya was expelled from

for anti-party activities. On 30 January 2021, she joined the

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along with

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, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborty and Rudranil Ghosh in presence of

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. She unsuccessfully contested the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election from the

as the

candidate and lost to the

candidate Dr. Rana Chatterjee.

Controversies

On 13 April 2015, the Calcutta Leather Complex Tanner's Association filed a complaint of cheating and misappropriation of funds against M L Dalmiya & Co. Ltd. and its directors which included Baishali Dalmiya and her brother Avishek Dalmiya. According to General Secretary Imran Ahmed Khan, the Police visited the site to conduct a probe and turned the complaint into an FIR (no. 90/15). On 5 March 2021, the then

election agent Rana Chatterjee filed complaint with the Election Commission to take action against Baishali Dalmiya for suppression of material facts and not providing proper information regarding criminal antecedent in her nomination document.

References

1969 births Living people West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 Women in West Bengal politics People from Howrah 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal Former members of Trinamool Congress {{WestBengal-politician-stub