Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Indian politician (born 1959)
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (born 23 November 1959) is an Indian physician and politician from West Bengal. She is a four-time Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha from West Bengal since 2009. She was a prominent leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC) until June 2026, when she led a group of TMC MPs to merge with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India. In the 2009 elections, she won from Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency), and was re-elected in the 2014, 2019, and 2024 Indian general elections.. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar was the National President of All India Trinamool Mahila Congress, the women's wing of TMC. In August 2025, Ghosh Dastidar was appointed as the Chief Whip of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the Lok Sabha. In May 2026, after the AITC (TMC) party's defeat in the West Bengal state elections, Ghosh Dastidar distanced herself from party chief Mamata Banerjee, and resigned all TMC party posts, citing corruption under her rule and the mishandling of the 2024 Kolkata rape and...
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