Bratya Basu

Bratya Basu
Bratya Basu
	Bratya Basu at a State Theatre event, Kolkata, 2023
Minister of Education, West Bengal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 May 2021
Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Partha Chatterjee
	In office; 20 May 2011 – 20 May 2014
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Partha De
Succeeded by	Partha Chatterjee
Minister of Information Technology and Electronics
	In office; 5 October 2018 – 10 May 2021
Governor	Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Succeeded by	Ratna De
Minister for Information Technology and Electronics, Government of West Bengal
	In office; 20 May 2016 – 5 October 2018
Governor	Keshari Nath Tripathi; Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Partha Chatterjee
Succeeded by	Amit Mitra
Minister of Tourism, Government of West Bengal
	In office; 20 May 2014 – 12 May 2016
Governor	M. K. Narayanan; D. Y. Patil; Keshari Nath Tripathi
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by	Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury
Succeeded by	Goutam Deb
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2011
Preceded by	Rekha Goswami
Constituency	Dum Dum
Personal details
Born	25 September 1969 ; Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata; University of Calcutta

Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury (born 25 September 1969), also known as Bratya Basu, is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor and politician who has been the Education Minister of West Bengal since 2021. He has also assumed the same office in the First Mamata Banerjee ministry. In May 2016, Basu was assigned the portfolios of Tourism, Science Technology and Bio-Technology, Information Technology and Electronics. He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, from the Dum Dum constituency since the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal. Basu is presently the Chairperson of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and Minerva Natyasanskriti Charchakendra under the governance of the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, West Bengal.

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