Tapan Sikdar
{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tapan Sikdar
| image = Tapan Sikdar.jpg
| caption = Tapan Sikdar in 2004
| office = 4th President of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal
| term_start = 1997
| term_end = 1999
| predecessor = Sukumar Banerjee
| successor = Dr. Vishnukant Shastri
| term_start1 = 1991
| term_end1 = 1995
| predecessor1 = Dr. Vishnukant Shastri
| successor1 = Asim Ghosh
| office2 = Union Minister of State
| term_start2 = 13 October 1999
| term_end2 = 10 May 2004
| suboffice2 = Communications & Information Technology
| subterm2 = 13 October 1999 – 1 July 2002
| suboffice3 = Chemicals and Fertilizers
| subterm3 = 1 July 2002 – 10 May 2004
|constituency4 = Dum Dum, West Bengal
| office4 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
| term4 = 1998–2004
| predecessor4 = Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee
| successor4 = Amitava Nandy
| birth_date = 20 September 1944
| death_date = 2 June 2014 (aged 69)
| nationality = Indian
| party = Bharatiya Janata Party
| alma_mater = Malda College (B.Com)
| profession = Politician
| footnotes =
}}
Tapan Sikdar (20 September 1944 – 2 June 2014) was a Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government of India and a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. He was born on 20 September 1944 in Jessore. His father Dr. D. N. Sikdar was a physician. His mother's name was Bela Rani Sikdar. He was member of 12 and 13 Lok Sabha representing Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal.
Tapan Shikdar died on 2 June 2014 in Delhi, AIIMS due to respiratory problems.[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Former-minister-Tapan-Sikdar-dies-at-AIIMS-at-70/articleshow/35938150.cms Former minister Tapan Sikdar dies at AIIMS in Delhi – The Times of India]
Positions held
- 1998 Elected to 12th Lok Sabha
- 1998-99 Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Water Resources
- 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
- 13 Oct. 1999-2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications
- 10 Jan - 30 June 2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
- 1 July 2002 -2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (India)
He was Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology (India). Later he was Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He unsuccessfully contested the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election where the All India Trinamool Congress candidate (who won and became the MP) got 458,988 votes whereas the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate got 438,510 votes) and he polled only 55,679 votes.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch
Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch is a forum of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dissidents in the Indian state of West Bengal. The forum was launched on 5 December 2004 by former Union Minister Tapan Sikdar.
{{cite news
|url = http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec052004/i12.asp
|title = Dissident BJP leaders float parallel body in West Bengal
|publisher = Deccan Herald
|page = 1
|date = 2004-12-05
|accessdate = 2006-08-14
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20041213214155/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec052004/i12.asp
|archivedate = 13 December 2004
}}
The organisation held its first convention in Kolkata on 8 March 2006.
{{cite news
| url = http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=173000
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060627012945/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=173000
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 27 June 2006
| title = Sikdar organises first Mancha convention
| publisher = expressindia.com
| page =
| date = 2006-03-09
| accessdate = 2006-08-15}}
The forum is named after Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Sikdar maintains that the organisation is apolitical (in the sense that it is not a political party), and that he still sympathises with BJP.
{{cite news
| url = http://news.oneindia.in/2006/03/03/bangladeshi-infiltration-continues-unabated-tapan-sikdar-1141393048.html
| title = Bangladeshi infiltration continues unabated: Tapan Sikdar
| publisher = oneindia.com
| page =
| date = 2006-03-03
| accessdate = 2006-08-15}}
References
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External links
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| video2={{YouTube|1n8Ep59zDvQ|Tapan Sikdar's Last Jourrney}}
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- [http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok13/biodata/13WB20.htm Biodata]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114135440/http://www.ficci.com/media-room/speeches-presentations/2001/sep/sep-tel-mos.htm Speeches]
{{Eleventh to Fourteenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
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