Chandrima Bhattacharya

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| name = Chandrima Bhattacharya

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age| 1955|12|05|df=y}}

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| residence = 57E Garcha Road, Kolkata

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| profession = Politician

| office1 = Minister of State (Independent Charge), Government of West Bengal

| 1blankname1 = Department

| 1namedata1 = *Finance (I/C)

Health and Family Welfare (MoS)
Land and Land Reforms (MoS)
Refugee and Rehabilitation (MoS)

| 2blankname1 = Chief Minister

| 2namedata1 = Mamata Banerjee

| governor1 = M. K. Narayanan
D. Y. Patil (additional charge)

Keshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
La. Ganesan (additional charge)
C. V. Ananda Bose

| term_start1 = 2012

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| office2 = Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly

| term_start2 = 2 May 2021

| constituency2 = Dum Dum Uttar

| predecessor2 = Tanmoy Bhattacharya

| constituency3 = Kanthi Dakshin

| term_start3 = 2016

| term_end3 = 2021

| predecessor3 = Dibyendu Adhikari

| successor3 = Arup Kumar Das

| constituency4 = Dum Dum Uttar

| term_start4 = 2011

| term_end4 = 2016

| predecessor4 = Constituency established

| successor4 = Tanmoy Bhattacharya

| party = Trinamool Congress

| nationality = {{flag|India}}

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Chandrima Bhattacharya{{Cite web|date=2021-03-22|title=Chandrima Bhattacharya: One among Mamata's reliable lieutenants|url=https://indianexpress.com/elections/chandrima-bhattacharya-bengal-elections-mamata-banerjee-tmc-7239228/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=The Indian Express|language=en}} is an Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms, Refugee and Rehabilitation{{Cite web |url=http://wbcmo.gov.in/ministers.aspx |title=Chief Minister's Office - Government of West Bengal |access-date=29 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223173653/http://www.wbcmo.gov.in/ministers.aspx |archive-date=23 December 2016 |url-status=dead }} of the Government of West Bengal. Previously, she acted as a minister in the first reshuffle of the ministry in January 2012 after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.{{cite web | url = http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/mamata-inducts-two-new-ministers/254/28644/ | archive-url = https://archive.today/20141215114436/http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/mamata-inducts-two-new-ministers/254/28644/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 December 2014 | title = Mamata inducts two new ministers | publisher = The Sunday Indian, 16 January 2012 | accessdate = 19 August 2014 }} She was also made the junior Law Minister in October 2012.{{cite web| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121027/jsp/bengal/story_16128013.jsp#.U_86BWPYfIU| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903113844/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121027/jsp/bengal/story_16128013.jsp#.U_86BWPYfIU| url-status = dead| archive-date = 3 September 2014|title = Junior minister for legal leg-up |publisher= The Telegraph, 27 October 2012| accessdate = 19 August 2014}} She was promoted as a cabinet minister and given independent charge of Law and Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal in November 2012.{{cite news| url = http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/mamata-reshuffles-ministry-drops-one-minister-112112200043_1.html |title = Mamata reshuffles ministry, drops one minister |newspaper = Business Standard India |date = 22 November 2012 |publisher= Business Standard 22 November 2012| accessdate = 29 October 2014|agency = Press Trust of India }}

Bhattacharya holds an LL.B (1976) degree from the University of Calcutta.{{cite web| url =http://myneta.info/westbengal2011/candidate.php?candidate_id=638 |title = Election Watch Reporter|publisher= My Neta | accessdate = 19 August 2014}} She was also a practising advocate in Calcutta High Court till the 2011 elections.

She had been elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly on an Trinamool Congress ticket from Dum Dum Uttar in 2011 and 2021 and from Kanthi Dakshin in 2017.{{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 = 13 August 2014}}