MUKHERJEE, SMT. GEETA
C.P.I - PANSKURA (WEST BENGAL)

Father's Name:   Shri Prafulla Kumar Roy Chowdhury

Date of Birth:   8 January 1924

Place of Birth:   Calcutta (West Bengal)

Marital Status:   Married on 8 November 1942

Spouse's Name:   Late Shri Biswanath Mukherjee

Educational Qualifications :
B.A.
Educated at Ashutosh College, Calcutta University, Calcutta

Profession :
   Political and Social Worker

Permanent Address :
   Flat-12, Block-D, 18, Bow Street, Calcutta-700 012
(West Bengal) 
Tel. (033) 2254488

Positions Held :
   
1946Member, State Committee, C.P.I., Bengal
1967-77Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Member,  Various  Committees,   West  Bengal  
Legislative Assembly
1978 onwardsMember, National Council, C.P.I.
1980Elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)
1980-83Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1981-82Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes 
and Scheduled Tribes
1981-84Member, Joint Committee on Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill
1981 onwardsMember, National Executive Committee, C.P.I.
1984Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth)
1985-86,1987-89Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
and 1991-92
1989Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the third time
20 Dec.1989-91 Member, Panel of Chairmen
1993-96
28 Dec.1989-91Member, House Committee
24 Jan.1990-91Member, General Purposes Committee
1990-91Member,  Consultative  Committee,   Ministry  of 
Information and Broadcasting
1991Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the fourth time
1993-95Member, Public Accounts Committee
1993-96Member, Standing Committee on External Affairs 
1993 onwardsMember,   Joint-Select  Committee  on  various  
bills relating to women
1996Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) for the fifth time
1996 onwardsChairperson, Joint Select Committee on one-third 
reservation of seats for women in Lok Sabha and 
Legislative   Assemblies;   Chairperson,  Joint 
Committee on Offices of Profit; Member, Standing 
Committee on Communications

Books Published:
(i) 'Bharat Upakatha', (ii) 'Chotoder Ravindranath', 
(iii) 'He Atit Katha Kao' (all in Bengali) and Bengali 
translation of 'Naked among Wolves'. 

Social and Cultural Activities :
Women's employment, women's movement, student movement, peasant 
movement, removal of illiteracy and other social problems

Special Interests :
   Theory and practice of Marxism and Leninism

Favourite Pastime and Recreation :
Poetry, songs  and  socialising  with  rural  women and younger 
generation

Countries Visited :
   Widely travelled

Other Information :
Participated in freedom struggle;  imprisoned several times for 
participation  in  mass  movements  during pre-independence and 
post-independence periods; Associated  with C.P.I. as a student 
since  1939;  General  Secretary,  Bengal  Provincial  Students 
Federation,1947-1951; Secretariat Member, Women's International 
Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1958; Executive Member, National 
Federation  of  Indian  Women  since  1965;   Member,  National 
Commission  on  Rural  Labour,  1986 and National Commission on 
Women, 1988;  and  Member,  National  Children's  Board, 15 May, 
1990; Member, Press Council;Vice-President, National Federation 
of Women

Election Result :
   
Panskura Lok Sabha constituency
Total electorate9,40,752
Total votes polled8,45,529
Votes polled in favour of the
first four leading candidates:
(1) Smt. Geeta Mukherjee (C.P.I.)4,55,414
(2) Shri Padma Khastgir (I.N.C.)3,44,026
(3) Shri Amitabh Nayak (B.J.P.)  15,563
(4) Shri Durga Pada Hansda (Ind.)      9,265