Subhas Naskar is an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Socialist Party. He served as Irrigation Minister in the Left Front government of West Bengal.[1] He has won the Basanti Legislative Assembly seat in the 1982, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections.[1][2] After the 2011 assembly election he was elected as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1]
Subhas Naskar's ancestral house at Basanti was attacked during panchayat elections in 2008 and a bomb was allegedly thrown by CPI(M) supporters, fatally injuring his nephew's wife.[3][4]
The son of the late Prajapati Naskar, he is a graduate and a former school teacher.[5]
References
- ^ a b c The Hindu. Surjya Kanta Mishra elected Leader of the Opposition
- ^ "101 - Basanti (SC) Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ "Basu unity fear echoes in blast". The Telegraph, 16 May 2008. Archived from the original on 20 May 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Why Bengal politics are so bloody". BBC News 20 May 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Subhas Naskar". My Neta. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
