| Pratima Bhoumik | |
| Birth Date: | 1969 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Barnarayan, Sepahijala, Tripura, India |
| Residence: | Agartala, Tripura, India |
| Office: | Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Term Start: | 7 July 2021 |
| Term End: | 11 June 2024 |
| Alongside: | Ramdas Athawale and A. Narayanaswamy |
| Primeminister: | Narendra Modi |
| Minister: | Virendra Kumar Khatik |
| Predecessor: | Rattan Lal Kataria |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start1: | 23 May 2019 |
| Term End1: | 4 June 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Sankar Prasad Datta |
| Constituency1: | Tripura West |
| Office2: | Member of Legislative Assembly, Tripura |
| Constituency2: | Dhanpur |
| Term Start2: | 2 March 2023 |
| Term End2: | 15 March 2023 |
| Predecessor2: | Manik Sarkar |
| Successor2: | Bindu Debnath |
| Office3: | General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tripura |
| Term Start3: | 6 January 2016 |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alma Mater: | Women's College, Agartala |
| Source: | https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/4983?from=members |
| Successor1: | Biplab Kumar Deb |
Pratima Bhoumik (born 28 May 1969) is an Indian politician from Tripura. She served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the Second Modi ministry from 7 July 2021 to 11 June 2024.[1] [2]
Bhoumik was born in Barnarayan, Sipahijala District, Tripura. She is the daughter of late Debendra Kumar Bhoumik. She completed her graduation in bio-science in 1991 at Women's College, Agartala, which is affiliated with Tripura University.[3]
In 2019, Bhoumik was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tripura West as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party[4] having defeated sitting MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress candidate Subal Bhowmick by a huge margin. She was also elected to the Tripura Legislative Assembly in 2023 from the Dhanpur Assembly constituency but resigned a few days later to retain her Lok Sabha membership and ministerial berth. Since 2016, she has also been a State General Secretary of the BJP Tripura unit.
Bhoumik was included in the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha whip list.[5]
Bhoumik was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, from Tripura West.[6] After the result was formally declared, in an interview with IANS, the 50-year-old science graduate said: "I would work for the all-round development of the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah's development mantra and vision are our future course of action for the welfare of the people."
Bhowmik, secured 5,73,532 votes (51.77 per cent of the valid votes polled) and won the Tripura West seat defeating her Congress rival Subal Bhowmik by a margin of 3,05,689 votes. She is the second Lok Sabha member from Tripura after Congress' Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi, also former Tripura minister, who won in 1991.[7]
Pratima Bhowmik, the Lok Sabha MP from Tripura West parliamentary constituency, donated Rs 1,00,000 from her first month's salary for Assam flood relief. At least 67 people have died and 33,55,837 have been affected in the deluge that has inundated over 2,000 villages in 17 districts of Assam.[8] [9] [10]
She became Minister of State Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Second Modi ministry when cabinet overhaul happened.[11] She became first Central Minister from Tripura.[12]