Suvendu Adhikari Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More StarsUnfolded
• 1995: Suvendu Adhikari entered politics by joining the Indian National Congress (INC). The same year, he was elected as a councillor from the Contai Municipality of West Bengal.• 1998: He left the primary membership of INC to join Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC). He was one of the earliest members to side with the then newly formed party.
• 2006: He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Kanthi Dakshin constituency.
• 2009: He was elected as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from the Tamluk constituency.
• 2014: He was re-elected to Lok Sabha from the Tamluk constituency.
• 2016: He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative assembly from the Nandigram constituency. Subsequently, he left his post of Member of Parliament, representing Tamluk in Lok Sabha.
• 2016: After TMC came into power in West Bengal for the second time, consecutively, Suvendu Adhikari was given portfolios of the Transport Department and Irrigation And Waterways Department in West Bengal.
• 2020: Amid his long-standing feud with the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, he resigned from his ministerial portfolios and then filed his resignation as MLA of Nandigram on 17 December. The same day, he also gave up the primary membership of the TMC.
• 2020: On 19 December 2020, he signed the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
• 2021: In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections, he defeated Mamata Banerjee from the Nandigram seat by 1736 votes. On 10 May 2021, BJP picked Suvendu Adhikari as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.
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