Minakshi Mukherjee

Early life and education Minakshi was born in Kulti, West Bengal. She completed schooling at Jaladhi Kumari Devi Uchcha Balika Vidyalaya in Kulti. Her graduation was from Banwarilal Bhalotia College in Asansol and she later completed a master's degree in political science from Burdwan University.

Political career Minakshi Mukherjee started her activism through Students' Federation of India in her college days. She was later inducted into the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) local committee in 2008. In the same year, she also joined the state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal. against the Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee (the West Bengal Chief Minister) and the BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari. Minakshi represented the Left-Congress-ISF alliance (Sanjukta Morcha) in Vidhan Sabha election.

On 11 February 2021, she participated in the 2021 Nabanna Abhijan from College Street to protest for jobs that was intended to present a list of demands to chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna, which ended with conflicting claims of how many protesters were hospitalized after the police responded, and prompted a 12-hour strike by the Left Front against police brutality. The injuries of the Nabanna protestors became a political issue in the upcoming election, and Mukherjee continued to emphasize the need for jobs in her campaign. However, she did not win the election.

On 5 October 2021, she became the first woman to serve as the state secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation of India.

In 2022, Mukherjee was prominent in the protest against the death of Anish Khan and briefly incarcerated. In 2024, she participated in the Left Front Grand Brigade Rally in Kolkata.