Manoj Chakraborty

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

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| name = Manoj Chakraborty

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|04|08|df=y}}

| birth_place = Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

| residence = Kolkata

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| office = Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs

| term_start = 20 May 2011

| term_end = 18 January 2012

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| office2 = MLA

| term_start2 = 2006

| term_end2 = 2021

| constituency2 = Baharampur

| predecessor2 = Maya Rani Paul

| successor2 = Subrata Moitra (Kanchan)

| party = Indian National Congress

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| alma_mater = Berhampore College (B.Com)

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Manoj Chakraborty is an Indian politician and was Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Baharampur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.{{Cite web|url=http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view|title=Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet|accessdate=22 May 2011|publisher=Government of West Bengal|date=21 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213008/http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view|archive-date=5 October 2011}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20110525085921/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mamata-allocates-portfolios-to-ministers/153060-37.html Mamata allots portfolios, keeps key ministries]{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/election-news/story/20090601-all-the-didis-men-739813-2009-05-22 | title=All the Didi's men | date=22 May 2009 | first=Abhijit | last=Dasgupta | work=India Today | accessdate=3 June 2018 }}

Manoj Chakraborty resigned from the state cabinet on 18 January 2012.{{cite web| url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mamata-banerjee-trinamool-congress-leader-manoj-chakraborty/1/169315.html |title = WB: Congress leader says Mamata govt 'dictatorial', quits| date=18 January 2012 |publisher= India Today 18 January 2012| accessdate = 14 July 2014}}

Manoj Chakraborty shot into prominence when in the 2006 state assembly elections as an independent he won the Berhampore assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amal Karmakar of RSP. Manoj Chakraborty, contesting as an independent, was a rebel Congress candidate put up by Adhir Choudhury as a protest against the official Congress candidate Maya Rani Paul.{{cite news| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060512/asp/bengal/story_6214010.asp| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060630164023/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060512/asp/bengal/story_6214010.asp| url-status = dead| archive-date = 30 June 2006|title = Adhir beats Cong at home | newspaper = The Telegraph 12 May 2006|accessdate = 2011-05-13 | location=Calcutta, India| date=2006-05-12}}