Dipali Biswas (born 2 August 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the

West Bengal Legislative Assembly The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata, the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by t ...

. She was elected as the representative of the Gazole constituency in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a candidate of the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

. In 2016, she switched her party to

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

and in 2020, she switched to the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Mod ...

(BJP).

Personal life

Dipali Biswas is married to Ranjit Biswas and a resident of

Gazole Town Gazole (also spelled as Gajol) is a town in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Gazole police station serves this city. The headquarters of Gazole (community development block) block is Gazole. Geography Location Gazole town is ...

in the district of Malda, West Bengal. She was educated at the Bardanga Raghunath High School and became an

Integrated Child Development Services Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government program in India which provides nutritional meals, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their ...

worker.

Political career

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Dipali Biswas was nominated to contest from the Gazole constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The election resulted in Biswas emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 20,000 votes and polling at 43.47% of the votes cast against 32.95% of the votes cast in favor of Sushil Chandra Roy of the Trinamool Congress and 14.51% of the votes cast in favor of Sudhanshu Sarkar of the BJP. In 2018, she joined the Trinamool Congress party, and on 19 December 2020, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biswas, Dipali 1970 births Living people West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021 Women in West Bengal politics Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal 21st-century Indian women politicians Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal