Tapan Sikdar (20 September 1944 – 2 June 2014) was a Union minister of state in the

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government of

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and a

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politician. He was born on 20 September 1944 in

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. His father Dr. D. N. Sikdar was a physician. His mother's name was Bela Rani Sikdar. He was member of 12 and 13

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representing

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. Tapan Shikdar died on 2 June 2014 in Delhi, AIIMS due to respiratory problems.

Positions held

*1998 Elected to 12th Lok Sabha *1998-99 Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Water Resources *1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term) *13 Oct. 1999-2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications *10 Jan - 30 June 2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology *1 July 2002 -2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (India) He was Union

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. Later he was Union

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. He unsuccessfully contested the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election where the

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candidate (who won and became the MP) got 458,988 votes whereas the

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candidate got 438,510 votes) and he polled only 55,679 votes.

Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch

Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch is a forum of

(BJP) dissidents in the

n state of

. The forum was launched on 5 December 2004 by former Union Minister Tapan Sikdar. The organisation held its first convention in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

on 8 March 2006. The forum is named after

Syama Prasad Mookerjee Syama Prasad Mukherjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply (currently known as Ministry of Commerce and Industry) in Jawaharlal Nehru' ...

, the founder of

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. Sikdar maintains that the organisation is apolitical (in the sense that it is not a political party), and that he still sympathises with BJP. The group campaigns against

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i immigration to West Bengal.

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Biodata
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sikdar, Tapan 1944 births 2014 deaths Bengali Hindus People from West Bengal India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from West Bengal National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Respiratory disease deaths in India Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal People from North 24 Parganas district