Rabindranath Bhattacharjee

Rabindranath Bhattacharya is an Indian politician. He was also an MLA, elected from the Singur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Bhattacharjee is better known as “Mastermoshai” which means teacher.

Political career

In 2001, Bhattacharjee won the Singur constituency for Trinamool Congress. He was instrumental in mobilizing land acquisition of a proposed Tata Nano factory in Singur. This was one of the causes which led to the defeat of the longest-serving democratically elected Communist government in the world, ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front government, a fact that was noted by the international media. He played a crucial role in the 2007 anti-land acquisition movement launched by Mamata Banerjee.

From May 2011 to November 2012, he was Minister for Agriculture in Mamata Banerjee ministry and was Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation November 2012 to May 2016.

In 2021 elections, TMC denied a ticket for Bhattacharjee. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party and became the candidate from Singur.