Role Solicitor Alma mater Calcutta University Education University of Calcutta | Profession Advocate Party Bharatiya Janata Party Name Satyabrata Mookherjee Residence New Delhi | |
Born May 8, 1932 (age 91)
Distt. Sylhet (Assam) (now Bangladesh) ( 1932-05-08 ) | ||
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Satyabrata Mookherjee (born 8 May 1932) is a former Indian Union Minister of State was the President of BJP's West Bengal state unit from 2008 before being replaced by Rahul Sinha in October 2009. He was Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers (September 2000 – June 2002) and later for Commerce and Industry (July 2002 – October 2003) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry.
Born on 8 May 1932 in Sylhet in Assam (now Bangladesh), he was educated at Calcutta University. He did his Bar-at-law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and also pursued further studies at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
He was an Additional Solicitor General of India before being elected, in 1999, to the 13th Lok Sabha from Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.