Samar Mukherjee (Malda politician)

Mukherjee is from Ratua, Malda district, West Bengal. He is the son of late Kshitish Mukherjee. He studied Class 10 in 1961 at Katahdiara High School, and passed the examinations conducted by West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. Later he did, Pre University course in 1964 at Malda College, University of North Bengal.^[1] He is a retired teacher.

Mukherjee won from Ratua Assembly constituency representing All India Trinamool Congress in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He polled130,674 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Abhishek Singhania of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 75,650 votes.^[2] Earlier, he won the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election defeating Shehnaz Quadery of All India Trinamool Congress, by a margin of 43,275 votes.^[4][5][6]