Asish Banerjee

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Asish Banerjee
Deputy Speaker of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2021
Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Speaker	Biman Banerjee
Preceded by	Sukumar Hansda
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2001
Preceded by	Mahammad Hannan
Constituency	Rampurhat
Minister for Agriculture Government of West Bengal
In office 2017–2021
Governor	Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Purnendo Bose
Succeeded by	Sovandeb Chatterjee
Minister of State for Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, Siddha, Yoga and Homeopathy (Independent Charge) Government of West Bengal
In office 2014–2015
Governor	Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Minister of Biotechnology, Statistics and Programme Monitoring, Government of West Bengal
In office 2015–2016
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-03) 3 November 1951 (age 73) Rampurhat, Birbhum, India
Political party	Trinamool Congress
Parent	Asit Baran Banerjee (father)
Residence(s)	Rampurhat, West Bengal, India
Education	PhD
Alma mater	BA, MA & PhD from Burdwan University
Occupation	Associate Professor at Rampurhat College, (until 2001)

Dr. Asish Banerjee is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress, who was the minister in charge of the Department of Agriculture in the Government of West Bengal from 2017 to 2021.^[1] He is also M.L.A. of West Bengal Legislative Assembly, elected from Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) five times (terms 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 & 2021).^[2]

Asish Banerjee was born in Rampurhat Birbhum district in West Bengal. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees from Burdwan University. He also completed his PhD at the same university. During this period he was elected General Secretary of University Students' Council.

After completing his education at Burdwan University, Banerjee was an associate professor of Bengali at Rampurhat College under Burdwan University.

He was elected as M.L.A. from Rampurhat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2001 and subsequently re-elected from same constituency in 2006, 2011 and 2016. Banerjee was first time sworn in as a Minister of State under chief minister Mamata Banerjee in 2014 and allotted the independent charge of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. The next year he was nominated for minister in charge for Department of Biotechnology, Department of Statistics and Programme implementation, Planning.^[3]

In 2017, he took charge as the Agriculture Minister of West Bengal Government in Mamata Banerjee ministry (2016–2021) from his predecessor Purnendo Bose.^[3]

• "Asish Banerjee replaces Purnendu Basu as state Agriculture minister". Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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• https://web.archive.org/web/20190606083438/http://aitcofficial.org/aitc/full-list-of-ministers-and-their-portfolios-in-the-new-west-bengal-government/
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• https://zeenews.india.com/west-bengal/small-reshuffle-in-west-bengal-government-2040130.html

• West Bengal Legislative Assembly