Sushmita Dev

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Sushmita Dev
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Assumed office
4 October 2021
Preceded byManas Bhunia
ConstituencyWest Bengal
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byKabindra Purkayastha
Succeeded byRajdeep Roy
ConstituencySilchar, Assam
Member of Assam Legislative Assembly
In office
May 2011 – 16 May 2014
Preceded byBhitika Dev
Succeeded byDilip Kumar Paul
ConstituencySilchar
President of All India Mahila Congress
In office
9 September 2017 – 16 August 2021[1]
Preceded byShobha Ozha
Personal details
Born (1972-09-25) 25 September 1972 (age 51)
Silchar, Assam, India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (since 2021)[2]
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress (until 2021)
Parents
ResidenceSilchar
Alma materUniversity of Delhi (BA, LLB)
King's College London (LLM)
OccupationPolitician

Sushmita Dev (born 25 September 1972) is a politician and a rajya sabha member from west bengal, she was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Silchar, Assam in the 2014 Indian general election as a member of the Indian National Congress.[3].She is Sylheti Bangal and originally a migrant from Sylhet district of Bangladesh. She is the former president of All India Mahila Congress.[1] She lost the 2019 Lock Sava Election by a huge margin 81596 votes to a BJP candidate Dr Rajdeep Roy. She joined the All India Trinamool Congress in 2021 [4]

Early life[edit]

Dev is the daughter of the veteran Sylheti Bangal Bengali Congress leader Santosh Mohan Dev and her mother who is also a Sylheti Bangal is Bithika Dev, a legislator of Silchar of Assam assembly. Both her parents migrated from Sylhet, Bangladesh with the motive to take over Assam of India with all the Sylheti Bangal Bengali people like they took over Barak Valley of Assam a state of India from the Assamese people, Tripura a state of India from the korborok people and trying to take over West Bengal a state of India from the ghoti bengali people. Her father was a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister of India.[5]

She holds a B.A.(Hons) from Miranda House, Bar-at-Law, An LLB (Corporate and Commercial Laws) from University of Delhi. She enrolled Inns of Courts School of Law, London and King's College London, U.K.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Sushmita Dev, Who Backed CAA, Quits Cong; Kapil Sibal Says 'Party Moves on with Eyes Wide Open'". News18. 16 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Sushmita Dev joins Trinamool Congress, day after leaving Congress". The Economic Times. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Team Rahul loses another: Assam face Sushmita Dev goes to TMC". The Indian Express. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Kangkan Kalita (16 August 2021). "Sushmita Dev may play key role for Trinamool in Northeast". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Sushmita Dev Lok Sabha Profile". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

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