Somnath Chatterjee

 Somnath Chatterjee the former  Speaker of the Lok Sabha (House of the People of India) from 2004 to 2009 died on monday 13th August 2018 at the age of 89 due to sever heart attach.He was prominent Politician associated with communist party of India 

Somnath Chaterjee

Political Career of Somnath Chatterjee

Somnath Chatterjee

Somnath Chatterjee 

Somnath Chatterjee was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) from 1968 to 2008. . He became a Member of the Lok Sabha in 1971 and was elected the first time as an independent candidate supported by the CPI (M). From then he was re-elected nine times, except once when he lost to Mamata Banerjee in the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in 1984. From 1989 until 2004 he was the leader of his party in the Lok Sabha. He was elected for the tenth time in 2004 as a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency, which is considered to be a CPI (M) stronghold. Following the 2004 election, he was appointed as the pro tem speaker and subsequently on 4 June 2004 he was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha He was the second pro tem Speaker after Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar to achieve this feat.

Education

Somnath was educated at Mitra Institution School, Presidency College and then the University of Calcutta in Calcutta. He also attended Jesus College, Cambridge and graduating with a B.A. in 1952 and a M.A. in 1957, both in law, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the college in 2007. He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in London and took up legal practice as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court before joining active politics.

Awards and honours

In 1996 he won the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award.

in 2013, he received Living Legend Award at the prestigious Bharat Nirman Awards.