Shyamali Pradhan

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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly|Member]] of [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency1 = [[Nanoor constituency]]
| termstart1 = 2016
| termend1 = 2021
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1972|8|2}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Burdwan]]
| preceded1 = Gadhadhar Hazra
| successor1 = Bidhan Chandra Majhi
}}
'''Shyamali Pradhan''' (born 2 August 1972<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Elected Members|url=http://www.wbassembly.gov.in/MLA_All.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]}}</ref>) is an Indian politician and former member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]. She was elected as the representative the [[Nanoor constituency]] in the [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] as a member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=West Bangal General Legislative Election 2016|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3469-west-bangal-general-legislative-election-2016/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> Pradhan is a member of the party state committee from the Birbhum district in [[West Bengal]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Chakraborty|first=Sandip|date=2019-10-19|title=The Fight Now is Between Indian Nationalism and Hindutva Nationalism: Yechury|url=https://www.newsclick.in/the-fight-indian-nationalism-hindutva-nationalism-yechury|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-15|website=NewsClick|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Shyamali Pradhan is a resident of [[Nanoor]] town in the [[Birbhum district|district of Birbhum]], West Bengal belonging to a [[Dalit|Scheduled Caste]] family. She graduated from the [[Chandidas Mahavidyalaya]] affiliated to the [[University of Burdwan]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Shyamali Pradhan|url=https://myneta.info/westbengal2016/candidate.php?candidate_id=416|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=myneta.info|publisher=[[Association for Democratic Reforms]]}}</ref>

== Political career ==
In the [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], Shyamali Pradhan was nominated to contest from the Nanoor constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), one of the constituent parties of the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front coalition]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gupta|first=Smita|date=2016-04-18|title=Bardhaman’s sanguinary tales|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/westbengal2016/Bardhaman%E2%80%99s-sanguinary-tales/article14244101.ece|url-status=live|access-date=2020-11-15|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> She lost the election to the opposition candidate Gadadhar Hazra of the [[Trinamool Congress]] while polling at 46.07% of the votes cast against 49.21% in favor of Hazra.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=West Bengal 2011|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3195-west-bengal-2011/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>

In the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, she was re-nominated as the candidate of the party from the constituency.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Mishra|first=Mayank|date=2016-04-26|title=Aggressive TMC versus a timid Opposition|work=[[Business Standard]]|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/aggressive-tmc-versus-a-timid-opposition-116042600055_1.html|url-status=live|access-date=2020-11-15}}</ref><ref name=":22" /> The [[anti-communist]] Trinamool Congress<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 April 2011|title=The Anti-Communist of West Bengal|url=https://www.forbes.com/2011/04/14/forbes-india-trinamool-congress-didi-banerjee-at-gates.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-15|website=[[Forbes]]|language=en}}</ref> in the prior four years had reportedly engaged in [[political repression]] through intimidation and violence against volunteers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and later became the subject of factional infighting with the emergence of two local factions in the Nanoor constituency, one of which openly backed Pradhan's candidacy during the campaigning period.<ref name=":3" /> She was subsequently elected as the representative from the constituency polling at 50.07% of the votes cast against 37.73% of the votes cast in favor of the incumbent Hazra.<ref name=":22" /> In light of the election results, a spate of [[political violence]] erupted between the two Trinamool Congress factions with Hazra's faction attacking the other. The leadership of the Trinamool Congress reacted to the incident by claiming that the infighting was orchestrated by the communists which was denied by Pradhan.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ghoshal|first=Aniruddha|date=2016-05-25|title=Nanoor clash in West Bengal: ‘TMC worker’s life could have been saved’|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/west-bengal-post-poll-violence-nanoor-clash-in-tmc-workers-life-could-have-been-saved-2817622/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-15|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref>

In 2019, she was inducted as the Birbhum representative in the West Bengal state committee of the Communist Party.<ref name=":1" />

==References==
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[[Category:Women in West Bengal politics]]
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