Satyabrata Mookherjee


Satyabrata Mookherjee is a former Indian Union Minister of State was the President of BJP's West Bengal state unit from 2008 before being replaced by Rahul Sinha in October 2009. He was Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers and later for Commerce and Industry in Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry.
Born on 8 May 1932 in Sylhet in Assam, he was educated at Calcutta University. He did his Bar-at-law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and also pursued further studies at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
He was an Additional Solicitor General of India before being elected, in 1999, to the 13th Lok Sabha from Krishnagar in West Bengal as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.