Subhas Kumar Sarkar

Subhas Sarkar (born 25 November 1953) is an Indian gynecologist and politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Bankura, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served the constituency from 2019 to 2024. He has already served as the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Education (India) in the Second Modi ministry.

Political career The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind administering the oath as Minister of State to Subhas Sarkar, at a Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on July 7, 2021. He contested from Bankura as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in 2019 Indian general election and defeated a veteran politician and Bengal Minister Subrata Mukherjee of All India Trinamool Congress by over 1 lakh votes. On 8 July 2021, he was made the Minister of State for Education during the cabinet reshuffle in the Narendra Modi cabinet.