Jitendra Chaudhury

Jitendra Chaudhury (born 27 June 1958) is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serves as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom and as leader of the opposition. Previously, he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) before conceding defeat against Rebati Tripura of the BJP in 2019.

Jitendra Chaudhury is the current Secretary of the CPI(M) Tripura State Committee. At the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 2018, he was elected as a member of the central committee. He is the national Chairperson of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM).

Early life Chaudhury was born on 27 June 1958 in South Tripura to a Tripuri family. His parents were Matahari Chaudhury and Hematara Chaudhury. He completed his higher secondary education in 1980 at Umakanta Academy.

Political career alt=The State Rural Development Minister, Tripura, Shri Jitendra Choudhury lighting the lamp to launch the Unique ID Project (Aadhaar) in the State, at Rupaichhari RD Block, Tripura. The Chairman Jitendra Chowdhury lighting the lamp to launch the Unique ID Project (Aadhaar) in the State, at Rupaichhari RD Block, Tripura.

In 1993, Chaudhury was elected from the Manu ST constituency as the CPI(M) candidate in the Tripura Legislative Assembly election, which he won. He was the Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports from 1993 to 1998 in the Dasarath Deb Ministry. He was also Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports in the Manik Sarkar Ministry from 1998 to 2014. In 2014 Indian general election he was elected from the Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) and became Member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tripura. However, in the 2019 Indian general election, he lost to Rebati Tripura. In the 2023 Tripura election, he was elected from the constituency of Sabroom.

Member of Parliament Chaudhury was Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha between 2014 and 2019 from Tripura East. On 27 February 2016, he proposed that announcements should be made in the Kokborok language at the Agartala airport and Railway stations in Tripura. Following this, announcements on flight-related information in Kokborok were made mandatory at Agartala airport, as the civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju informed Chaudhury through a letter.

State secretary of CPI(M), Tripura On 19 September 2021, Chaudhury was named as the state secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) – Tripura following the death of the incumbent secretary Goutam Das, for an interim period until the party's next state conference. In 2022, at the conference of the CPI(M), Tripura state committee he was unanimously elected as the state secretary.

Leader of Opposition, Tripura Legislative Assembly Chaudhury was sworn as Leader of Opposition of the Tripura Legislative Assembly on 20 March 2024. Following the Tipra Motha Party joining the BJP-led coalition government and the subsequent resignation of his predecessor Animesh Debbarma of the Tipra Motha Party, the CPI(M) became the prime opposition in the assembly.

Electoral history Chaudhury was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Manu for five consecutive terms and elected once as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha. Currently he is the MLA from Sabroom.

Summary Tripura Legislative Assembly elections

Lok sabha elections

Detailed results Lok Sabha elections Lok Sabha Election 2014

Lok Sabha Election 2019

Tripura Legislative Assembly elections 1983 Assembly election

1988 Assembly election

1993 Assembly election

1998 Assembly election

2003 Assembly election

2008 Assembly election

2013 Assembly election

2023 Assembly election

Positions held