Jitendra Chaudhury
Indian politician
Jitendra Chaudhury (born 27 June 1958) is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serves as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom and as leader of the opposition. Previously, he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) before conceding defeat against Rebati Tripura of the BJP in 2019.
Jitendra Chaudhury is the current Secretary of the CPI(M) Tripura State Committee. At the 22nd Communist Party Congress in 2018, he was elected as a member of the central committee. He is the national Chairperson of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM).
01Early life
Chaudhury was born on 27 June 1958 in South Tripura to a Tripuri family. His parents were Matahari Chaudhury and Hematara Chaudhury. His father was also a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly between 1978 and 1983. He completed his higher secondary education in 1980 at Umakanta Academy.
02Political career
In 1993, Chaudhury was elected from the Manu ST constituency as the CPI(M) candidate in the Tripura Legislative Assembly election, which he won. He was the Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports from 1993 to 1998 in the Dasarath Deb Ministry. He was also Minister of Forest and Industry, Commerce, Sports in the Manik Sarkar Ministry from 1998 to 2014. In 2014 Indian general election he was elected from the Tripura East (Lok Sabha constituency) and became Member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tripura. However, in the 2019 Indian general election, he lost to Rebati Tripura. In the 2023 Tripura election, he was elected from the constituency of Sabroom.
Member of Parliament
Chaudhury was Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha between 2014 and 2019 from Tripura East. On 27 February 2016, he proposed that announcements should be made in the Kokborok language at the Agartala airport and Railway stations in Tripura. Following this, announcements on flight-related information in Kokborok were made mandatory at Agartala airport, as the civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju informed Chaudhury through a letter.
State secretary of CPI(M), Tripura
On 19 September 2021, Chaudhury was named as the state secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), Tripura following the death of the incumbent secretary Goutam Das, for an interim period until the party's next state conference. In 2022, at the conference of the CPI(M), Tripura state committee he was unanimously elected as the state secretary.
Leader of Opposition, Tripura Legislative Assembly
Chaudhury was sworn as Leader of Opposition of the Tripura Legislative Assembly on 20 March 2024. Following the Tipra Motha Party joining the BJP-led coalition government and the subsequent resignation of his predecessor Animesh Debbarma of the Tipra Motha Party, the CPI(M) became the prime opposition in the assembly.
03Electoral history
Chaudhury was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Manu for five consecutive terms and elected once as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha. Currently he is the MLA from Sabroom.
Summary
Tripura Legislative Assembly elections
| Year | Party | Constituency | Opponent | Result | Margin | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | CPI(M) | Manu | INC | Angju Mog | Lost | 1,942 | ||
| 1988 | CPI(M) | INC | Angju Mog | Lost | 169 | |||
| 1993 | CPI(M) | INC | Angju Mog | Won | 2,674 | |||
| 1998 | CPI(M) | INC | Joykishore Tripura | Won | 3,732 | |||
| 2003 | CPI(M) | INPT | Chandan Tripura | Won | 4,105 | |||
| 2008 | CPI(M) | INC | Thaikhai Mog | Won | 6,160 | |||
| 2013 | CPI(M) | INC | Chandi Charan Tripura | Won | 6,896 | |||
| 2023 | CPI(M) | Sabroom | BJP | Sankar Roy | Won | 396 | ||
Lok sabha elections
| Year | Party | Constituency | Opponent | Result | Margin | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | CPI(M) | Tripura East | INC | Sachitra Debbarma | Won | 4,84,358 | ||
| 2019 | BJP | Rebati Tripura | Lost | 2,81,163 | ||||
Detailed results
Lok Sabha elections
Lok Sabha Election 2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 6,23,771 | 65.47 | +2.00 | |
| INC | Sachitra Debbarma | 1,39,413 | 14.63 | −12.78 | |
| AITC | Bhriguram Reang | 77,028 | 8.08 | +7.57 | |
| BJP | Parikshit Debbarma | 60,613 | 6.36 | +4.13 | |
| Margin of victory | 4,84,358 | 50.84 | +14.84 | ||
| Turnout | 9,51,080 | 83.41 | |||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | ||||
Lok Sabha Election 2019
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Rebati Tripura | 482,126 | 46.12 | +40.13 | |
| INC | Maharaj Kumari Pragya Deb Burman | 2,77,836 | 26.58 | +12.78 | |
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 2,00,963 | 19.22 | −46.00 | |
| IPFT | Narendra Chandra Debbarma | 45,304 | 4.33 | ||
| Margin of victory | 2,04,290 | 20.84 | +14.84 | ||
| Turnout | 10,46,123 | 82.90 | |||
| BJP gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
Tripura Legislative Assembly elections
1983 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Angju Mog | 10,304 | 55.20% | 20.64 | |
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 8,362 | 44.80% | 2.14 | |
| Margin of victory | 1,942 | 10.40% | 2.31 | ||
| Turnout | 18,666 | 83.50% | 5.12 | ||
| Registered electors | 22,733 | 18.65 | |||
| INC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | ||||
1988 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Angju Mog | 11,832 | 50.12% | 5.08 | |
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 11,663 | 49.40% | 4.60 | |
| Margin of victory | 169 | 0.72% | 9.69 | ||
| Turnout | 23,608 | 89.39% | 6.11 | ||
| Registered electors | 26,760 | 17.71 | |||
| INC hold | Swing | ||||
1993 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 14,886 | 54.93% | 5.53 | |
| INC | Angju Mog | 12,212 | 45.07% | 5.05 | |
| Margin of victory | 2,674 | 9.87% | 9.15 | ||
| Turnout | 27,098 | 85.01% | 4.73 | ||
| Registered electors | 32,458 | 21.29 | |||
| CPI(M) gain from INC | Swing | ||||
1998 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 16,236 | 55.80% | 0.87 | |
| INC | Joykishore Tripura | 12,504 | 42.97% | 2.09 | |
| BJP | Chandi Tripura | 357 | 1.23% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 3,732 | 12.83% | 2.96 | ||
| Turnout | 29,097 | 85.36% | 0.52 | ||
| Registered electors | 34,635 | 6.71 | |||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | ||||
2003 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 17,358 | 55.31% | 0.49 | |
| INPT | Chandan Tripura | 13,253 | 42.23% | New | |
| BJP | Chandi Tripura | 773 | 2.46% | 1.24 | |
| Margin of victory | 4,105 | 13.08% | 0.25 | ||
| Turnout | 31,384 | 85.00% | 0.98 | ||
| Registered electors | 36,927 | 6.62 | |||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | ||||
2008 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 21,100 | 56.07% | 0.77 | |
| INC | Thaikhai Mog | 14,940 | 39.70% | New | |
| Independent | Kirat Bahan Tripura | 800 | 2.13% | New | |
| BJP | Mrathaiong Mog | 789 | 2.10% | 0.37 | |
| Margin of victory | 6,160 | 16.37% | 3.29 | ||
| Turnout | 37,629 | 94.45% | 9.09 | ||
| Registered electors | 39,999 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | 0.77 | |||
2013 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 21,320 | 58.07% | 2.00 | |
| INC | Chandi Charan Tripura | 14,424 | 39.29% | 0.42 | |
| BJP | Thaiu Mog | 971 | 2.64% | 0.55 | |
| Margin of victory | 6,896 | 18.78% | 2.41 | ||
| Turnout | 36,715 | 96.01% | 1.71 | ||
| Registered electors | 38,329 | ||||
| CPI(M) hold | Swing | ||||
2023 Assembly election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Jitendra Chaudhury | 21,801 | 49.02% | 3.63 | |
| BJP | Sankar Roy | 21,405 | 48.13% | 2.51 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,265 | 2.84% | 1.86 | |
| Margin of victory | 396 | 0.89% | 4.36 | ||
| Turnout | 44,471 | 92.65% | 2.05 | ||
| Registered electors | 48,064 | 9.31 | |||
| CPI(M) gain from BJP | Swing | 1.62 | |||
04Positions held
| Year | Position | Place/organisation | Belonging party | Remark | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed office | Left office | |||||
| 1993 | 2014 | MLA | Tripura Legislative Assembly | CPI(M) | ||
| 2014 | 2019 | Member of Parliament | Lok sabha | |||
| 2017 | 2023 | Convenor | Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) | |||
| 2018 | present | Central Committee Member | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
| 2019 | 2023 | President | Ganamukti Parishad | |||
| 2021 | present | Secretary | CPI(M) Tripura | |||
| 2023 | present | MLA | Tripura Legislative Assembly | |||
| 2023 | present | Chairperson | Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) | |||
| 2024 | present | Leader of Opposition | Tripura Legislative Assembly | |||
| 2025 | present | Polit Bureau Member | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
Sources and credits
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- Jitendra Chaudhury at CPI(M) rally in Chailengta, 5 February 2023.jpg by Bdm166, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The State Rural Development Minister, Tripura, Shri Jitendra Chowdhury lighting the lamp to launch the Unique ID Project (Aadhaar) in the State, at Rupaichhari RD Block, Tripura. The Chairman.jpg by Ministry of Home Affairs, GODL-India
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