Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

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Full Name	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 2, 1956(1956-04-02)
Age	68
Birthplace	Murshidabad
Country	India
Birth City	Murshidabad
Horoscope	Capricorn

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Biography

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 2, 1956 in Murshidabad, Murshidabad, India. Chowdhury was born on 2 April 1956 to Niranjan and Saroja Bala Chowdhury at Berhampore in Murshidabad district, West Bengal. He studied at I.C. Institute in Berhampore.

Chowdhury contested the 1999 Indian general election from Berhampore constituency. He won by a margin of 95,391 votes and defeated his nearest rival, the sitting MP Pramothes Mukherjee of Revolutionary Socialist Party. Following his success, he was made the Congress president for the Murshidabad district. Between 1999 and 2000, he served as a member of Committee on Information Technology, Railway Convention Committee and Committee to Review the Rate of Dividend Payable by the Railway Undertaking to the General Revenues. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as a member of Consultative Committee of the Ministry of External Affairs. In 2003, under Chowdhury’s leadership, the Congress party won 23 out of 33 zilla parishad seats, 13 out of 26 panchayat samitis and 104 out of 254 village councils in Murshidabad.

He became the president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress on 10 February 2014.

On 26 July 2019, Chowdhury was appointed as the chairman of Seventeenth Lok Sabha Committee on Public Accounts. The Public Accounts Committee is now constituted every year under Rule 308 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.

Chowdhury joined the Indian National Congress party during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi. In 1991, he contested the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from Nabagram constituency. During the polling, he was chased by 300 supporters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and held hostage by its candidate. Chowdhury lost by a margin of 1,401 votes. In 1996, he was elected from the same constituency. Chowdhury was polled 76,852 votes and won by a margin of approximately 20,329 votes.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Net Worth

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is one of the richest Politician from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician serving as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore. He is also a former president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee.

Chowdhury married Arpita Chowdhury (nee Majumdar) on 15 September 1987. Their only child, a daughter, Shreyashi died in October 2006 after falling off from the terrace of their apartment at the age of 18. The police suspected that it was a case of suicide. On 9 January 2019, Arpita died. In the 2019 Indian general election affidavit, Adhir Chowdhury declared that he was married to Atasi Chattopadhyaya Chowdhury. Media reported that Adhir had adopted her daughter.

On 28 October 2012 he was inducted in the Union Ministry under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as Minister of State for Railways.

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Adhir Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury celebrates birthday on April 2 of every year.