Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury
Sreerupa Mitra Choudhury | |
|---|---|
| Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Nihar Ranjan Ghosh |
| Constituency | English Bazar, Malda |
| Chairperson of National Institute for Gender Justice[1] | |
| In office 2014–2016 | |
| Chairman of Special Task Force (India) on Rape, Trafficking & Violence Against Women | |
| In office December 2012 – December 2013 | |
| President of NGO Sudinalay | |
| In office 2010–2013 | |
| National Advisor of National Legal Services Authority of the Ministry of Law and Justice (India) | |
| In office 2008–2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 April 1964[2] |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party[2] |
| Spouse | Ram Krishna Mitra |
| Residence(s) | South Baluchar, Malda, West Bengal[3] |
| Education | University of North Bengal (M.A)[3] |
Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury (born 18 April 1964), popularly known as Nirbhaya Didi, is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party from West Bengal, India. She is also a social worker, women's rights activist and former journalist.[4][5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury hails from South Baluchar Battla in Malda district of West Bengal. She is a Post Graduate and did her Master of Arts from North Bengal University in 1987. She is married to Ram Krishna Mitra.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]In 2004 she took part in the launching of the National Legal Literacy Mission.[6] As of 2008 she served as national advisor of the National Legal Services Authority of the Ministry of Law and Justice.[6] As of 2010 she was the president of the NGO Sudinalay.[7]
Known as Nirbhaya Didi in Kolkata, she was involved with the process of rehabilitation of rape victims and providing toilets to women.[4] She chaired the special task force on rape, trafficking and violence against women set up by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the 2012 Delhi gang rape.[4][8][9] She resigned from this post in December 2013, amidst speculations that she could have run for parliament from the Malda seat as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.[8]
Chaudhury was named as the candidate of the All India Trinamool Congress got 803 votes in the South Delhi Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 general election.[4][5] In 2019, Lok Sabha election, she contested from Maldaha Dakshin seat with a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.[3][2] But lost to Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury by a small margin.[10]
In the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Chaudhury contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from English Bazar and won the seat by defeating her nearest rival from TMC.[11][12]
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- 1960s births
- Living people
- Bengali Hindus
- 21st-century Bengali people
- Bengali activists
- Candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
- Candidates in the 2019 Indian general election
- Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal
- People from Malda district
- People from English Bazar
- Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal
- West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026
- Activists from West Bengal
- Indian women activists
- Indian social workers
- Indian feminists
- Indian women's rights activists
- 20th-century Indian journalists
- 20th-century Indian women journalists
- 21st-century Indian journalists
- University of North Bengal alumni
- Women members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
- 21st-century Indian women journalists