Kalyan Banerjee (politician)

Kalyan Banerjee (Bengali: কল্যাণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 4 January 1957) is an Indian politician belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress. He is Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of India and Calcutta High Court. He is a four-time Member of Parliament. He has won the 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024 Indian general elections from Serampore (Lok Sabha constituency).

Career

He was earlier elected for the 16th Lok Sabha from the same constituency.

Kalyan Banerjee's education qualification is B.Com. and LL.B. He is a well known advocate, who has been frequently taking up numerous cases for Trinamool Congress. He has been practicing in Calcutta High Court since 1981. Some of the cases he handled are of Rizwanur Rahman Case, matters relating to Nandigram, Chhota Angaria Case, Bhikari Paswan Case, Imposition of Sec-144 in Singur and different land acquisition cases.

He visited the UK and US as a member of a parliamentary team in October 2009.

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