Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya
Jayanta Bhattacharya
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 1996-1998
Preceded by	Satyagopal Misra
Succeeded by	Lakshman Chandra Seth
Constituency	Tamluk
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	In office; 2000-2006
Constituency	West Bengal
Personal details
Born	15 March 1947 (age 77); Kanchrapara, 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India
Political party	Indian National Congress (until 1999, 2002–present)
Other political; affiliations	All India Trinamool Congress (1999-2002)
Spouse	Arundhati Bhattacharya
Children	1 son
	Source: [1]

Jayanta Bhattacharya is an Indian Politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Tamluk in West Bengal in 1996. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate backed by the Trinamool Congress but he rejoined the Congress in 2002.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
^ "Somen echoes Mamata". The Telegraph. 26 June 2005. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
^ "Trinamul MP Jayanta Bhattacharya rejoins Cong". The Times of India. 5 September 2002. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
^ The Journal of Parliamentary Information. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 2004. p. 6. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
^ India. Parliament. House of the People; India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (1997). Lok Sabha Debates. Lok Sabha Secretariat. p. 247. Retrieved 1 November 2018.

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