{{Short description|Indian politician and advocate}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sankar Chakraborty | alma_mater = University of Calcutta (M.Com), (L.L.B) | term_start1 = 2011 | term_end1 = 2016 | term_end = 2016 | term_start = 2013 | office1 = MLA | resting_place_coordinates = | office = Minister of Public Works Department | party = All India Trinamool Congress | birth_place = Balurghat | birth_date = 1945 | succeeded = Aroop Biswas | preceded = | image = | constituency1 = Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) | succeeded1 = Biswanath Chowdhury | preceded1 = Biswanath Chowdhury }}
'''Shankar Chakravorty''' (alternate spelling: Sankar Chakraborty) is an Indian politician and a trial lawyer from Balurghat, District-Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. He is presently the chairman (cabinet rank)<ref>{{Cite web|title="Pay Fixation of Shri Sankar Chakravorti [...] in the rank and pay of Cabinet Minister"|url=http://www.wbpwd.gov.in/home/download/ZTQ5MjZmMTFmNWVhZGNhOGExZDIzZWIwOGFmYjA1ZWJjM2NiMWNjZTg1MmQyMDc1YjQyY2RkOTE3YjhlMzE0NWNhODNmZWRmYWQzMmUyMjc2YmQ3ZWY1ZjBiZDRkODA3Yjk2NTBhNzE2YTkwZGEzZTMyNzI5MWVmOTgzNmE3OGZyeEw4TFpuNjQ2R1QxSnNmRHVUMGoxL0p6N0U2WlljYlc0c0tTSUJPcnFxMElQMHd1VGZsRkF4djJLcGN0aEE1|website=WBPWD}}</ref> of the board of directors of three state run PSUs namely Mackintosh Burn Ltd., Westinghouse Saxby Farmer Ltd. and Britannia Engineering Ltd.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/4-former-ministers-to-be-appointed-in-different-government-posts-in-west-bengal/articleshow/52506879.cms</ref>
He was formerly the vice president of the state committee of All India Trinamool Congress.<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/tmc-reshuffle-satabdi-roy-made-tmc-vice-president-after-she-voiced-dissent-7150505/</ref>
He was the minister in charge of P.W.D., Dept. of Cooperation, Dept. of Renewable Energy, Dept. of Correctional Administration in the Council of Ministers of the Government of West Bengal in various phases.<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 May 2011|title=Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet|url=http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view|url-status=dead|publisher=Government of West Bengal|accessdate=22 May 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213008/http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view|archivedate=5 October 2011}}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110525085921/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mamata-allocates-portfolios-to-ministers/153060-37.html Mamata allots portfolios, keeps key ministries</ref> He was an MLA, elected from the Balurghat constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.<ref>{{cite web|title=Election Watch Reporter|url=http://myneta.info/westbengal2011/candidate.php?candidate_id=84|publisher=My Neta|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> In 2016, he closely lost the same position. He was formerly a member of the board of administrators of Balurghat Municipality.<ref>{{Cite web|last=MP|first=Team|date=2019-11-21|title=Plan to expedite pending state projects mooted at Balurghat municipality meet|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/plan-to-expedite-pending-state-projects-mooted-at-balurghat-municipality-meet-386753|access-date=2021-03-01|website=www.millenniumpost.in|language=en}}</ref>
He was previously the chairman and president of the Dakshin Dinajpur district committee of All India Trinamool Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TMC's new district chief wants unity|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/tmc-s-new-district-chief-wants-unity/cid/1524390|access-date=2021-02-13|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> He was also a member of the Board of Administrators of Balurghat Municipality.<ref>http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/plan-to-expedite-pending-state-projects-mooted-at-balurghat-municipality-meet-386753</ref>
==Early life and education==
Shankar Chakravorty was born in 1945. He is the son of Byomkesh Chakravorti, who was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council. He did his schooling from Balurghat High School. He holds a post-graduate degree in commerce and a degree in law from the University of Calcutta.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shankar Chakraborty(All India Trinamool Congress(AITC)):Constituency- BALURGHAT(DAKHSIN DINAJPUR) - Affidavit Information of Candidate|url=https://myneta.info/westbengal2011/candidate.php?candidate_id=84|access-date=2021-02-13|website=myneta.info}}</ref>
==Legal career==
He was appointed special public prosecutor in the Rainagar multiple murder case.<ref>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1K4ERuGVKg</ref> The incident happened on July 31, 1987 at Rainagar village near Balurghat town. Incidentally, the district court awarded death penalty to the perpetrators. This was later upheld by the High Court.<ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/13-years-after-the-last-hanging-where-were-the-activists-then-asks-mother/cid/728292</ref><ref>https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/mother-cries-for-hanged-son/cid/728315</ref>
As a lawyer, Shankar Chakravorty was actively associated with a case in which Mamata Banerjee herself appeared as a lawyer in Balurghat Court in order to get bail for a group of students who were detained by the police. Mamata Banerjee, Shankar Chakravorty, Biplab Mitra, Subash Chaki (lawyer and politician) and a few other lawyers were instrumental in this case where the students were finally granted bail by the Honourable Court. Mamata Banerjee has chronicled this whole incident in her book ''Upalabdhi''.<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46200218-upalabdhi</ref>
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