Dr. Ratna De Nag
Birth nameRatna Nag
Birth date6 September 1948 (age 78)
Birth placeSerampore, West Bengal, India
PartyTrinamool Congress
Office 1Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Predecessor 1Sk. Amjad Hossain
Term start 12 May 2021
Term end 17 May 2026
Predecessor 2Jyoti Chowdhury
Successor 1Tusar Kumar Majumdar
Constituency 2Serampore, Hooghly
Term start 22001
Office 4Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Predecessor 4Rupchand Pal
Successor 4Locket Chatterjee
Term start 42009
Term end 42019
Constituency 4Hooghly
Office 3Chairperson of Hooghly District Trinamool Congress
Term start 34 July 2019
Term end 316 August 2021
President 3Dilip Yadav
Successor 3Asima Patra
Date11 September
Year2009
Source[1]
GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar
Predecessor
Successor
Term end 22008
Term start10 May 2021
Term end2 August 2022
OfficeMinister of State (Independent Charge)
Government of West Bengal
2namedata
1namedataMamata Banerjee
2blanknameDepartment
1blanknameChief Minister
Constituency 1Pandua, Hooghly
Successor 2Dr. Sudipto Roy

Dr Ratna De Nag (born 6 September 1948) is an Indian politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Environment Science, Technology and Bio-Technology in the Government of West Bengal. She was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha and 16th Lok Sabha from Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency), which includes the Singur area. She lost the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 to Locket Chatterjee, who was elected as a BJP candidate from the Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2021 election, she was elected as the MLA of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Pandua Vidhan Sabha Constituency.

She is daughter of Gopal Das Nag, who was Labour Minister in the Congress government under Siddhartha Shankar Ray. In 2001 and 2006, she won the assembly election from Sreerampur (Serampore).[2][3][4]

A doctor (MBBS and DCH) by profession, she was Member of the Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas, Lok Sabha.[1] She was a member of the Panel of chairpersons in the 16th Lok Sabha.[5][6][7]

She was sworn in as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) as a part of the 21st Council of Ministers for the state of West Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee with the portfolios of Department of Environment[8] and Department of Science & Technology and Bio-Technology.[9][10][11]

References

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  2. ^ "Why Mamata didn't give women MPs a chance". Archived from the original on 6 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  3. ^ "Dr. Ratna De(nag)". Archived from the original on 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  4. ^ "180 Serampore Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Archived from the original on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  6. ^ "Ten-member Panel of Chairpersons in Lok Sabha". The Economic Times
  7. ^ "Modi's remark against Manmohan triggers walkout by Congress". The Hindu. 8 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Environmental Department, Govt. of West Bengal". www.environmentwb.gov.in
  9. ^ "Department Of Science & Technology And Biotechnology". www.wbdstbt.in. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  10. ^ "১০টা ৪৫-এ শপথ, নীলবাড়িতে মমতার নতুন মন্ত্রিসভায় অভিজ্ঞ ২৭, একদম নতুন ১৬" (in Bengali). www.anandabazar.com
  11. ^ "West Bengal: Amit Mitra, 42 others set to join Mamata's third cabinet - Times of India". The Times of India