Pravat Chowdhury (born 28 December 1976) is an Indian politician and member of 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 ...

. Chowdhury is a member of the

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from the Manu (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in

South Tripura district South Tripura ( bn, দক্ষিণ ত্রিপুরা জেলা) is an administrative district in the state of Tripura in northeastern India. History The district came into existence on 1 September 1970, when the entire state was ...

since 2014. Chowdhury was elected in a 2014 bye-election to this seat, after the previous incumbent,

Jitendra Choudhury Jitendra Chaudhury (born 27 June 1958) is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serving as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom. Previously, he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the ...

, resigned to take his Lok Sabha seat for Tripura East after winning in 2014. Pravat Chowdhury won the bye-election by a landslide, leading by a record margin of nearly 16,000 votes. Chowdhury won reelection to a full term during the

2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election The 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election was held on 18 February for 59 of the state's 60 constituencies. The counting of votes took place on 3 March 2018. With 43.59% of the vote, the BJP secured a majority of seats (36) and subsequently ...

, but this time by a much smaller margin. His victory by 193 votes, or 0.48%, against Dhananjoy Tripura of the

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was the closest contest in the state.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chowdhury, Pravat Living people People from South Tripura district Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Tripura 1976 births Tripura MLAs 2013–2018 Tripura MLAs 2018–2023

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