Hiten Barman

{{short description|Indian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hiten Barman | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|6|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Gopalpur, District: Cooch Behar | death_date = | death_place = | office1 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | constituency1 = Cooch Behar | term1 = 2004-2009 | predecessor1 = Amar Roy Pradhan | successor1 = Nripendra Nath Roy | office2 = Member of Legislative Assembly | constituency2 = Sitalkuchi | term_start2 = 2011 | term_end2 = 2021 | successor2 = Baren Chandra Barman | office3 = Forest Minister | term3 = 2011-2013 | party = All India Trinamool Congress (2009 – present) All India Forward Bloc (1972-2009) | spouse = Kalpana Barman | children = Two sons (Tapan Barman and Piyush Barman) | alma_mater = | faculty = | website = | source = }} '''Hiten Barman''' is an Indian politician, who was earlier with All India Forward Bloc and later joined All India Trinamool Congress in the Indian state West Bengal.<ref name="Hiten Barman">{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Hiten Barman |url=https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/4112?from=members |access-date=3 July 2025 |work= |publisher=Digital Sansad |date=3 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250703052909/https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/4112?from=members |archive-date=3 July 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life== Hiten Barman, son of Maneswar and Rajabala Barman, was born on 21 June 1950 at Gopalpur in Cooch Behar district.<ref name=refocus>{{cite web| url = http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-273-Barman,%20Shri%20Hiten| title = Members of Parliament – Lok Sabha – Profile| work = Barman, Hiten| publisher = reFocusindia| access-date = 25 July 2014| archive-date = 24 September 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085549/http://www.refocusindia.com/member-of-parliament-lok-sabha-profile-273-Barman,%20Shri%20Hiten| url-status = usurped}}</ref>

Educated at Mathabhanga High School, he passed Higher Secondary and Junior Basic Training, and became a teacher.<ref name=refocus/>

He married Kalpana in 1983 and they have two sons.<ref name=refocus/>

==Political career== He entered politics at a young age in 1972, when he was studying at Ananda Chandra College in Jalpaiguri. Initially involved in student politics, he subsequently joined the Forward Bloc. Hailing from a peasant family he emerged as the saha-sabhapati of Mathabhanga Panchayat Samiti. In the 1996 Lok Sabha election, he contested as a candidate of the Forward Bloc (Socialist) led by Kamal Guha. He faced defeat then but was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from the Cooch Behar seat as a Forward Bloc candidate.<ref name=cbcalling>{{cite web| url =http://coochbeharcalling.blogspot.in/2011/05/making-of-minister.html |title = Making of a Minister|date = 20 May 2011|publisher= Cooch Behar Calling, 20 May 2011| access-date = 25 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=loksabha2004>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf |title = General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 July 2014 }}</ref>

In 2009, the Forward Bloc refused to renominate their sitting MP. This aggrieved him and he left the party and later joined the Trinamool Congress.<ref name=cbcalling/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140722/jsp/bengal/story_18640419.jsp#.U9G04UCyKt8 | archive-url =https://archive.today/20140803092317/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140722/jsp/bengal/story_18640419.jsp%23.U9G04UCyKt8 | url-status =dead | archive-date =3 August 2014 |title = CM appeals to left to join Trinamool|publisher=The Telegraph, 22 July 2014 | access-date = 25 July 2014}}</ref> In 2011, he was elected to the state assembly on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Sitalkuchi (Vidhan Sabha constituency).<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 25 July 2014}}</ref> He was made the Forest Minister in 2011 but was dropped in a reshuffle in 2013.<ref name=cbcalling/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.financialexpress.com/news/performance-check-mamata-banerjee-strips-partha-of-industry/1212193 |title = Performance check – Mamata Banerjee strips Partha of industry|publisher= The Financial Express, 27 December 2013| access-date = 25 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="Forest minister Hiten Barman has decided to use rubber bullets to prevent poaching.">{{cite news |title=Forest minister Hiten Barman has decided to use rubber bullets to prevent poaching. |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/forest-minister-hiten-barman-has-decided-to-use-rubber-bullets-to-prevent-poaching-/articleshow/9398393.cms |access-date=3 July 2025 |publisher=The Times of India |date=28 July 2011 |archive-date=}}</ref>

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