Shri Somnath Chatterjee
Father's Name:
Late Shri N.C. Chatterjee
Mother's Name :
Late Smt. Binapani Debi
Gender:
Male
Birth Place:
Tezpur (Assam)
Marital Status:
Married
E-Mail ID:
somnath@sansad.nic.in Profession:
Advocate Trade Unionist Political & Social Worker
Present Address:
- Residential Address - 20, Akbar Road, New Delhi - 110 011 Tels. (011) 23014011, 23014022 Fax: 23016212
- Tels. (011) 23014011, 23014022 Fax: 23016212
Permanent Address:
- (ii) Office Address (Kolkata) Office of Hon`ble Speaker Lok Sabha Raj Bhawan Annexe, Kolkata - 700 062
- Tels. (033) 22000160, 22000162, Fax: (033) 22000161
Profile:
- 1968 onwards
- Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist) [C.P.I.(M)]
- 1971
- Elected to 5th Lok Sabha
- Member, Joint Committee on Amendment of Election Laws
- 1971-77
- Member, Committee of Privileges
- Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit
- 1977
- Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
- 1977-79
- Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation
- Member, Joint Select Committee on Prasar Bharati Bill
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs
- 1980
- Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
- 1980-84
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Finance
- Member, Committee of Privileges
- 1985
- Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (4th term)
- 1986-89
- Member, Rlies Committee
- Member, Committee of Privileges
- Member, Joint Committee on Lok Pal Bill
- Member, Joint Committee on Prasar Bharati Bill
- 1987
- Member, State Committee, [C.P.I.(M)], West Bengal
- 1989
- Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (5th term)
- 1989 -2004
- Leader, [C.P.I.(M)] Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
- 1990
- Member, Committee to Review Lok Sabha Secretariat Rlies, 1955
- 1990-91
- Chairman, Committee of Privileges
- Member, General Purposes Committee
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
- 1991
- Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (6th term)
- 1991-93
- Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation
- 1993-96
- Chairman, Committee on Railways
- 1996
- Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (7th term)
- 1996-97
- Chairman, Committee on Communications
- 1998
- Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (8th term)
- Member, Central Committee, CPI(M)
- 1998-99
- Chairman, Committee on Communications
- Member, General Purposes Committee
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs
- 1999
- Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (9th term)
- Leader, C.P.I. (M) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
- 1999-2000
- Chairman, Committee on Communications
- Member, Business Advisory Committee
- Member, General Purposes Committee
- 2000-2001
- Member, Committee on Ethics
- 2002-2004
- Chairman, Committee on Information Technology (two terms)
- 2004
- Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 10th term)
- 4 June 2004 onwards
- Speaker, Lok Sabha
- Positions held as Speaker
- Chairman, (i) Business Advisory Committee; (ii) Rlies Committee; (iii) General Purposes Committee (iv) Joint Committee on Installation of Portraits/Statues of National Leaders and Parliamentarians in Parliament House Complex and (iv) Standing Committee of the Conference of the Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies in India
- President, (i) Indian Parliamentary Group; (ii) National Group of Inter-Parliamentary Union; and (iii) India Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA); Acting Chairman, Executive Committee, Asia Region of CPA (till 7 September 2004); Regional Representative Asia Region to the CPA, Executive Committee (till 7 September 2004); Chairman, Executive Committee, India Region of CPA (7 September 2004 onwards); Regional Representative, India Region, to the CPA Executive Committee (7 September 2004 -9 September 2005), Vice-President, CPA (9 September 2005 to 8 September, 2006); President, CPA (9 September, 2006 onwards)
