Biographical Sketch
Member of Parliament
12th Lok Sabha
MUKHERJEE, SMT. GEETA
[COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA - PANSKURA (WEST BENGAL)]
Father's Name Shri Prafulla Kumar Roychowdhury
Date of Birth 8 January 1924
Place of Birth Calcutta (West Bengal)
Marital Status Married on 8 November 1942
Spouse's Name Late Shri Biswanath Mukherjee
Educational Qualifications
B.A.
Educated at Ashutosh College, Calcutta
University, Calcutta (West Bengal)
Profession
Writer, Political and Social Worker
Permanent Address
Flat-12, Block-D, 18, Bow Street,
Calcutta-700012
(West Bengal)
Tel. (033) 2254488
Present Address
519, V.P. House,
New Delhi - 110001
Tel. (011) 3712326
Positions Held
1946 Member, State Committee, Communist Party of India
(C.P.I.), Bengal
1967-77 Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Member, Various Committees, West Bengal
Legislative Assembly
1978 Member, National Council, C.P.I.
onwards
1980 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha
1980-83 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1981-82 Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes
1981-84 Member, Joint Committee on Criminal Law
(Amendment) Bill, 1980
1981 Member, National Executive Committee, C.P.I.
onwards
1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1985-86 and Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1987-89
1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1989-91 Member, Panel of Chairmen
Member, House Committee
1990-91 Member, General Purposes Committee
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting
1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1991-92 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1993-96 Member, Panel of Chairmen
1993-95 Member, Committee on Public Accounts
1993-97 Member, Committee on External Affairs
1993 Member, Joint-Select Committee on bills relating
onwards to women
1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)
1996-97 Chairperson, Joint Select Committee on
Reservation of Seats for Women in Lok Sabha and
Legislative Assemblies
Chairperson, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit
Member, Panel of Chairmen
Member, Committee on Communications
Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women
1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)
1998 onwards Member, Secretariat, C.P.I.
1998-99 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
Member, Committee on External Affairs and its
Sub-Committee-I
Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women
and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to
Women - Criminal Laws
Member, Committee on Provision of computers to Members
of Parliament
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting
Books Published
(i) Bharat Upakatha; (ii) Chotader Rabindranath;
(iii) He Atit Katha Kao (all in Bengali); and (iv) Bengali
translation of 'Naked among Wolves'
Literary, Artistic and Scientitic Accomplishments
Regularly contributing articles to various newspapers and
weeklies
Social and Cultural Activities
Women's employment, women's movement, student movement, peasant
movement and eradication of illiteracy; working for womens'
empowerment and also for building communal harmony
Special Interests
Theory and practice of Marxism and Leninism
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Poetry, songs and socialising with rural women and younger
generation
Countries Visited
Widely travelled (including Australia, Austria, Bangladesh,
Canada, China, Germany,U.A.E., U.K., U.S.A., former U.S.S.R.,
etc.
Other Information
Participated in the Freedom Struggle; imprisoned several times
for participation in mass movements during pre-independence
and post-independence periods; Associated with C.P.I. as a
student since 1939; General-Secretary, Bengal Provincial
Students' Federation, 1947-1951; Vice-President, National
Federation of Women; Secretariat Member, Women's International
Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1958; Executive Member,
National Federation of Indian Women since 1965; Member,
(i) National Commission on Rural Labour, 1986, (ii) National
Commission on Women, 1988; (iii) National Children's Board,
1990; (iv) Press Council; and (v) Court of Visva Bharati, 1998-99
Election Result of
Panskura Lok Sabha Constituency
Total electorate 9,66,739
Total votes polled 8,31,273
Votes polled in favour of the first three leading candidates
(1) Smt. Geeta Mukherjee (C.P.I.) 4,50,092
(2) Dr. Saumen Mahapatra (W.B.T.C.) 2,70,549
(3) Smt. Sandhya De (I.N.C.) 99,439
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