Satyabrata Mookherjee is a former Indian Union Minister of State

Minister of State

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 and was until recently the President of BJP's West Bengal state unit before being replaced by Rahul Sinha in October 2009. He was Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers (September 2000 – June 2002) and later for Commerce and Industry (July 2002 – October 2009) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

 ministry.

Born on May 8, 1932 in Sylhet

Sylhet

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 in Assam

Assam

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 (now Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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), he was educated at Calcutta University. He did his Bar-at-law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and also pursued further studies at the Regent Street Polytechnic

University of Westminster

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 in London.

He was an Additional Solicitor General of India before being elected, in 1999, to the 13th Lok Sabha

13th Lok Sabha

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 from Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal state in eastern India.-Assembly segments:...

 in West Bengal

West Bengal

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 as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party

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.