Known For: Indian politician and actor
Category: Actors
Country: India
Language Bangla
Deepak Chakraborty, is an Indian actor and director in the Bengali film industry located in Kolkata, West Bengal. He is the son of renowned cartoonist Shaila Chakraborty. He is also a politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Government of West Bengal. He was born on 2 November 1955 in Kolkata. He has been conferred upon the prestigious Mahanayak Samman by the Govt. of West Bengal in 2012.
| BirthPlace | Kolkata |
| Awards | Padma Shri in arts |
| Wikipedia | Chiranjeet_Chakraborty |
Chiranjeet completed his Higher Secondary from Mitra Institution (Main). He studied B.E. in Architecture from Jadavpur University, but did not appear for his final examination. He has worked for Desh magazine and as a newsreader on TV. He is married and has a daughter. Chiranjeet contested the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election in Barasat Constituency for All India Trinamool Congress and won the seat. In March 2021, Mamata Banerjee announced Chiranjeet would contest from Barasat Vidan Sabha constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election 2021. Chakraborty regained the Barasat constituency as AITC candidate after defeating BJP candidate Sankar Chatterjee with a margin of 23,783 votes as declared on 2 May 2021. As of 2024, he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Government of West Bengal. In 2022, he expressed his opinion regarding Partha Chatterjee's arrest.
