Partha Chatterjee

Some Lesser Known Facts About Partha Chatterjee

• Partha Chatterjee is an Indian politician and member of the Trinamool Congress who was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate in July 2022 for his alleged involvement in the teacher recruitment scam in the West Bengal School Service Commission.

• He grew up in South Kolkata’s Naktala neighbourhood.

  

• Partha Chatterjee was one of the chief financer of ‘Naktala Udayan Sangha,’ a prominent Durga Puja committee in Kolkata, whose brand ambassador of the promotional campaigns in 2019 and 2020 was Arpita Mukherjee.

• Although Partha Chatterjee’s daughter, Sohini Chatterjee, hasn’t ventured into active politics, she aided her father in social media campaigning during the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections.

• Before pursuing a career in politics, Chatterjee worked at the government undertaking Andrew Yule & Co. as an HR professional.

• He has served as the National President of the National Institute of Personnel Management, Kolkata (Calcutta).

• He used to function as an editor of Jago Bangla, the mouthpiece of Trinamool Congress.

• For a long time, he held the position of Secretary General of TMC Bengal. He was also a member of the TMC’s disciplinary committee.

• In April 2019, an internet user named Gopa Das shared a picture of a boy at a party claiming that he was Partha Chatterjee’s son. Thereafter, the picture went viral on the internet following which Chatterjee took to social media to announce that he did not have a son.

  

• In the memory of his dog lover wife, who passed away in 2017, Partha Chatterjee built a hospital for dogs named Babli Chatterjee Memorial Pet Hospital on a plot of 17 acres near Baghajatin railway station in South Kolkata. In an interview, while remembering his wife, he said,
  

  Babli was a dog-lover in true sense. There are six dogs in our family now that include two St. Bernards, Golden Retriever and Pug. As long she was fit, she used to take care of them that including feeding them, giving them medicines and taking them to vets. Even when she went to sleep at night, her pets were her companions. So I thought that a hospital for dogs will be the best way to keep her memories alive.”

• In the aftermath of his arrest in the SSC scam in 2022, it was discovered that Chatterjee had a luxury flat in West Bengal’s Diamond City exclusively for his dogs. The ED unearthed many disproportionate assets of Chatterjee after his arrest which included three flats, 18/D, 19/D and 20/D, in Diamond City. ^[7]India Today

• He is the recipient of the HR Excellence Award from IPM, Sri Lanka, and HR RATNA from NIPM.