Tapan Sikdar

Who is Tapan Sikdar?

Tapan Sikdar is a former Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government of India and a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. He is known for his honesty in Indian politics. He was born on 20 September 1944 in Jessore. His father Dr.D.N. Sikdar was a renowned physician. His mother’s name was Smt. Bela Rani Sikdar.

He was member of 12 and 13 Lok Sabha representing Dum Dum in West Bengal.

Positions Held

1998 Elected to 12th Lok Sabha

1998-99 Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Water Resources

1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha

13 Oct. 1999-2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications

10 Jan - 30 June 2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

1 July 2002 -2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

When he was a Member of Parliament it is was the first time the people of Dumdum know that what is an MPLAD scheme. He was Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology. Later he was Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He unsuccessfully contested the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 general election where the All India Trinamool Congress candidate got 458,988 votes whereas the Communist Party of India candidate got 438,510 votes and he polled only 55,679 votes.