Manas Bhunia

Manas Bhunia
Manas Ranjan Bhunia. March 2023.
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 19 August 2017 – May 9, 2021
Preceded by	Debabrata Bandyopadhyay
Succeeded by	Sushmita Dev
Constituency	West Bengal
Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development Government of West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office May 10, 2021
Preceded by	Somen Mahapatra
Minister for Irrigation and Waterways & Small and Micro Industries and Textile Government of West Bengal
In office May 20, 2011 – September 25, 2012
Governor	M. K. Narayanan
Preceded by	Subhas Naskar (Irrigation and Waterways)
Succeeded by	Mamata Banerjee
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Preceded by	Geeta Bhunia
Constituency	Sabang
In office 2006–2017
Preceded by	Tushar Kanti Laya
Succeeded by	Geeta Bhunia
In office 1982–2001
Preceded by	Gouranga Samanta
Succeeded by	Tushar Kanti Laya
President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
In office 23 October 2008 – 17 January 2011
Preceded by	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
Succeeded by	Pradip Bhattacharya
Personal details
Born	Manas Ranjan Bhunia (1952-02-28) 28 February 1952 Sabang, West Bengal, India
Political party	Trinamool Congress (2016–present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (1970–2016)
Spouse	Gita Rani Bhunia
Residence	Kolkata

Manas Ranjan Bhunia is an Indian politician and was the Minister for Irrigation and Waterways and the Minister for Small & Micro Industries and Textile in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Sabang constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He along with all other ministers in the state cabinet resigned after Indian National Congress took back the support from the state government. He joined the Trinamool Congress in 2016. He is the current Minister of Water Resources Investigation and Development for the Government of West Bengal.

On 26 August 2015, he accused West Bengal police forces of selectively arresting supporters of the Chhatra Parishad movement. On September 16, he began an indefinite fast to protest the murder of one of the movement's members. In March 2021, he again got the ticket to contest the West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Sabang constituency and won.