Sabyasachi Dutta is an Indian politician from

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. He belongs to the

All India 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 was MLA from Rajarhat New Town Vidhan Sabha Constituency. He has also served as the first Mayor of

Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is the local government responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of Salt Lake and Rajarhat areas in Greater Kolkata. Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation was headed by Administrator Shri Pa ...

from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, he joined BJP.

Early life and education

Born to Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sabyasachi Dutta got a Bachelor of Laws in the year 1994 from South Calcutta Law College under

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, C ...

Political career

Dutta started his political career from

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and later joined the

in the late 1990s. Sabyasachi Dutta was elected councilor in the Bidhannagar Municipality for the first time in the 2000 Municipal elections. He was re-elected in the 2005 and 2010 Municipal elections. In

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, he was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly from Rajarhat New Town constituency. In 2015, after the merger of several municipalities and the establishment of the

, he was elected as the Mayor of the corporation. In 2016, he won for the second time as

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. Before joining BJP, he was a member of the

. He joined

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 Modi ...

on 1 October 2019 in presence of

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President

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. He has been appointed the Secretary of the

unit of the

on 1 June 2020. In October 2021, Dutta returned to

exactly after two years.

Controversy

In 2019, he stated that ''Bengal is now becoming a second Pakistan''. In 2021, Sabyasachi Dutta remarked that he would send those who oppose ''

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'' to Pakistan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutta, Sabyasachi Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016 Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal 1965 births Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021