Sushmita Dev (born 25 September 1972) is an Indian politician and member of Rajya Sabha from

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the four ...

, and 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 cu ...

. Previously, she was elected to the

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, lower house of the

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from

Silchar Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India. It is located south east of Guwahati. It was founded by Captain Thomas Fisher in 1832 when he shifted the headquarters of Cachar to Janiganj in Silchar. ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

in the

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

as a member of the

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. She is the former president of

All India Mahila Congress All India Mahila Congress (AIMC), also referred to as Mahila Congress, is the women's wing of the Indian National Congress (INC). The most recent President was Sushmita Dev who left office in 2021. Currently Netta D'Souza heads the All India Ma ...

. She lost the 2019 Lok Sabha Election by a huge margin to BJP candidate Rajdeep Roy, which led her to resign from Indian National Congress and to join the

in 2021.

Early life

Dev is the daughter of the veteran Indian National Congress leader

Santosh Mohan Dev Santosh Mohan Dev (1 April 1934 – 2 August 2017), was an Indian political leader and a key member of the Indian National Congress. Mr. Dev was first elected to the Parliament in 1980, the first of his seven terms in office as the Member of P ...

and her mother is Bithika Dev, a legislator of Silchar of

assembly. Her father was a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of India. She holds a B.A.(Hons.) from

Miranda House Miranda House is a constituent college for women at the University of Delhi in India. Established in 1948, it is one of the top ranked colleges of the country and ranked as number 1 for consecutively six years (as of 2022). History Miranda ...

, Bar-at-Law, an LLB (Corporate and Commercial Laws) from

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE ...

. She enrolled at Inns of Courts School of Law, London and King's College London, U.K.

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Sushmita Dev says joining TMC not compromise on ideologyOfficial biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1972 births Living people Delhi University alumni Alumni of King's College London India MPs 2014–2019 Bengali Hindus Women in Assam politics People from Silchar Indian National Congress politicians from Assam 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Women members of the Lok Sabha Trinamool Congress politicians Women members of the Rajya Sabha {{Assam-INC-politician-stub