Kanti Bhusan Gangopadhyay (known as Kanti Ganguly) is an Indian politician, belonging to the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term ...

. He served as a minister in the Left Front government of

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. He was initially minister in charge of Sunderbans Development and after the death of

Subhas Chakraborty Subhas Chakraborty (18 March 1942 – 3 August 2009) was an Indian politician belonged to Communist Party of India (Marxist) who served as Minister of Transport, Sports and Youth Services in the Government of West Bengal. Early life Chakrabort ...

in 2009, he was also allotted the portfolio of sports and youth welfare. The son of the late Bhuban Mohan Gangopadhyay, he is a commerce graduate. He was elected to

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

and

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from Mathurapur. Kanti Ganguly is one of the few indian politicians who prefer working on ground and helping people of his area instead of giving speeches to win elections. He was accused in the

Bijon Setu massacre The Bijon Setu massacre ( bn, বিজন সেতু হত্যাকাণ্ড) was the killing and burning of 16 sadhus and a sadhvi belonging to Ananda Marga, at Bijon Setu, near Ballygunge, Calcutta, Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, o ...

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal Living people West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011 People from South 24 Parganas district 1943 births {{CPIndiaMarxist-politician-stub