Anubrata Mondal

Some Lesser Known Facts About Anubrata Mondal

• Before entering politics, Anubrata used to run a small grocery shop in his hometown. He also earned money as a fish merchant.

• His affiliation with the Indian National Congress (INC) began in the early 1990s after he met Mamata Banerjee, who, back then, was the state Youth Congress president.

• Anubrata was among the few politicians who left Congress when Mamata Banerjee left in 1998 due to growing indifference between her and the senior Congress leaders.

  

• Anubrata became a member of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) in 1998.

• Anubrata was appointed the President of the TMC in Birbhum district in 2000 and has organised several successful elections campaigns for the TMC in Birbhum, resulting in landslide victories for the TMC candidates from Birbhum.

  

• Anubrata once told the media that he does not aspire to hold any position in the cabinet ministry; therefore, he has never contested any elections. In an interview, while talking about it, he said,
  

  I never contested general or assembly elections as I had never been greedy to become a minster. I don’t want it. I am happy working for the party as a loyalist.”

  

• Ever since the TMC came to power in West Bengal in 2011, his power as a politician has reportedly increased manifold.

• Anubrata has served as a chairman of several state government-owned enterprises like the West Bengal State Rural Development Agency (WBSRDA) and Tarapith Development Authority.

• On 9 April 2013, Anubrata assumed the position of director of the Mayurakshi Cotton Mills that he had founded in 1990 in Birbhum, West Bengal. According to the chargesheet filed by the CBI, he also owns more than 16 rice mills in West Bengal and has acquired 2500 shares in ANM Agrochem Foods.

• Anubrata assumed the post of director at the West Bengal Swarojgar Corporation Limited, a government-run public unlisted company, on 26 November 2021.

• Anubrata was included in the TMC’s national working committee in February 2022.

• Anubrata authored Khela Hobe, a book which was published in 2022.

  

• The CBI claimed that from 2013 to 2022, he bought properties worth Rs 6.5 crore. He sold properties worth Rs 2.19 crore from 2015 to 2021.