Tarak Bandyopadhyay ( – 10 October 2013) was an Indian politician from

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belonging to

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. He was a member of the

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Biography

Bandyopadhyay was elected as a legislator of the

as an

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candidate from Cossipur in 1996. Later, he joined

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 ...

. He was elected as a legislator of the

as a

candidate from Cossipur in 2001 and 2006. Bandyopadhyay died of cardiac arrest on 10 October 2013 at the age of 70.

References

1940s births 2013 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal Politicians from Kolkata West Bengal MLAs 1996–2001 West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011 {{WestBengal-politician-stub