Shashi Panja

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{{short description|Indian Politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Dr. Shashi Panja
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|10|04|df=y}}
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| residence = 250 Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-700006
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| office1 = [[Second Mamata Banerjee ministry|Minister of State ''(Independent Charge)'']], [[Government of West Bengal]]
| governor1 = [[Keshari Nath Tripathi]]<br/>[[Jagdeep Dhankhar]]
| 2blankname1 = [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| 2namedata1 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| 1blankname1 = [[Second Mamata Banerjee ministry|Minister of]]
| 1namedata1 = *[[Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare|Women and Child Development and Social Welfare]]
| constituency1 =
| term_start1 = 2016
| term_end1 = 2021
| office2 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of]] [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency2 = [[Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Shyampukur]]
| term_start2 = 2011
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| predecessor2 = Jiban Prakash Saha
| party = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
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| spouse = Dr. Prasun Kumar Panja
| children = Pooja and Namrata
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| succeeded1 = Herself (as cabinet minister)
| predecessor1 = [[Sabitri Mitra]]
| office = [[Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare|Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare]], '''Self Help Group & Self Employment'''<br>[[Government of West Bengal]]
| predecessor = Herself (as minister of state), [[Sadhan Pande]] (as Self Help Group and Self Employment)
| governor = [[Jagdeep Dhankhar]]
| termstart = 10 May 2021
| 1blankname = [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
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'''Shashi Panja''' is an medical practitioner and politician who currently serves as [[Third Banerjee ministry|Cabinet Minister]] for the [[Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare]] of the [[Government of West Bengal]].

==Early life==
Panja did her MBBS from [[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]] at Kolkata, with specialisation in ultrasound and infertility practice. She married Dr. Prasun Kumar Panja, son of the veteran politician [[Ajit Kumar Panja]].<ref name=hm >{{cite web| url =http://drishtikona.com/2011/05/17/sashi-panja-hms-own-girl/ |title = Sashi Panja:HM's own girl|publisher= Drishtikon, 17 May 2011| accessdate = 17 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://myneta.info/westbengal2011/candidate.php?candidate_id=778|title = Election Watch Reporter|publisher= My neta| accessdate = 17 July 2014}}</ref> She is daughter-in-law of [[Ajit Kumar Panja]].

==Political career==
Panja was elected a councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2010 and was appointed mayoral council member in charge of education.<ref>{{cite news| url =http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110517/jsp/calcutta/story_13992161.jsp |title = Know Your MLA|newspaper= [[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |date=17 May 2011| accessdate = 17 July 2014}}</ref>

She was elected to the West Bengal State Assembly from [[Shyampukur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]] in [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | accessdate = 17 July 2014}}</ref> and re-elected in [[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]] and [[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]] from same constituency

She was inducted into the [[Council of Ministers of West Bengal]] as a [[Minister of State|minister of state]] and given independent charge of the [[Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare|women & child welfare ministry]] in December 2013.<ref>{{cite web| url =https://www.aitmc.org/news_details.php?nid=2117 |title =Three new ministers take oath at Raj Bhavan, state cabinet reshuffled |publisher=All India Trinamool Congress, 26 December 2013 | accessdate = 17 July 2014}}</ref> In May 2014, she was given additional charge of the social welfare department.<ref>{{cite web|date= 28 May 2014| url = http://thestatesman.net/news/56940-bratya-shifted-to-tourism-partha-new-education-minister-mitra-to-see-it-also.html |title =Bratya shifted to tourism, Partha new education minister, Mitra to see IT also |publisher=The Statesman |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727093237/http://thestatesman.net/news/56940-bratya-shifted-to-tourism-partha-new-education-minister-mitra-to-see-it-also.html|archivedate=27 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2021 she was sworn in as the cabinet minister as a part of the [[Third Banerjee ministry|21st Council of Ministers for the state]] of [[Government of West Bengal|West Bengal]] under the leadership of [[Mamata Banerjee]] with the portfolios of [[Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare]]

==References==
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[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:All India Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Women in West Bengal politics]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 2011–2016]]
[[Category:Politicians from Kolkata]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021]]
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