Kalyan Banerjee Given TMC Ticket For The Fourth Term of Lok Sabha (Image: Facebook)Kalyan Banerjee is a sitting TMC MP from Serampore Lok Sabha constituency. He has been nominated again by TMC to run for the 18th Lok Sabha election.
The three-time Serampore MP, an advocate by profession, Kalyan has taken numerous cases for the Trinamool Congress. He has been practicing in Calcutta High Court since 1981. During his tenure in the house, he registered 69 percent attendance in the house, participated in 50 debates, and asked 138 questions.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested the former West Bengal minister in connection with a money laundering case in an alleged multi-crore ration distribution scam. Kalyan also caused a stir by mocking the mimicry of Rajya Sabha Chairperson and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar using pejorative language to target Dhankar. He was later suspended from the house. Earlier, a total of 157 lawyers of Calcutta High Court addressed a letter to CJI, HC Chief Justice, and Mamta Banerjee about his alleged misconduct in the court.
He had also been embroiled in a controversy for making remarks about Goddess Sita’s abduction episode with Hathras gangrape victim’s fate. A police complaint was lodged against him by BJP workers.
The constituency has 7 segments, 5 in Hooghly and 2 in Howrah district. It is an industrial constituency with an agriculture hinterland. Since 2009, Kalyan Banerjee has won elections in the constituency. In the last general elections, he secured 45.50 percent votes by defeating BJP’s Debjit Sarkar with around 97 thousand votes.
It is a general category seat with a 74.03 percent literacy rate. The Muslim, SC, and ST voters are 19.1%, 15.7% and 1% respectively. The urban and rural voters in the constituency are 73.2% and 26.8% respectively. The voter turnout in the last parliamentary election was 78.4%.
BJP candidate Kabir Shankar Bose is confident of giving a tough fight to Kalyan Banerjee.