Office3: | Union Minister of State For Chemicals & Fertilizers |
Term Start3: | 1 September 2000 |
Term End3: | 3 June 2002 |
Office2: | Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry |
Term Start2: | 1 July 2002 |
Term End2: | 13 May 2004 |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start1: | 1999 |
Term End1: | 2004 |
Predecessor1: | Ajoy Mukhopadhyay |
Successor1: | Jyotirmoyee Sikdar |
Satyabrata Mookherjee | |
Constituency1: | Krishnanagar |
Birth Date: | 1932 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sylhet, Assam Province, British India |
Death Place: | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
Residence: | New Delhi, India |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Alma Mater: | Calcutta University |
Profession: | Advocate |
Office5: | 7th President of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal |
Term Start5: | 2008 |
Term End5: | 2009 |
Predecessor5: | Sukumar Banerjee |
Successor5: | Rahul Sinha |
Nickname: | Jolu |
Satyabrata Mookherjee (bn|সত্যব্রত মুখার্জী; 8 May 1932 – 3 March 2023) was an Indian Union minister of state and 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 (September 2000 – June 2002) and later for Commerce and Industry (July 2002 – October 2003) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry.[1]
Mookherjee was born on 8 May 1932 in Sylhet in Assam (now Bangladesh), he was educated at Calcutta University. He did his Bar-at-law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn[2] and also pursued further studies at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
Mookherjee being a Senior Advocate, was an additional solicitor general of India before being elected,[3] in 1999, to the 13th Lok Sabha from Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party.[4]
Mookherjee was the nephew of Sankar Das Banerji, Speaker of West Bengal.
Mookherjee died on 3 March 2023, at age 90 in Kolkata.[5] [6]