Education
Indian Administrative Service.
Indian Administrative Service.
He is also an Modern Language Association, elected from the Jadavpur constituency in the West Bengal state assembly election, 2011. In this election he historically defeated 16,684 votes his former boss, the then incumbent Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who remained the Modern Language Association of this constituency for twenty-four years. He served under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal before he retired as an Institute for Advanced Study officer
He also worked as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal under Chief Minister Jyoti Basu - a time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was the Deputy Chief Minister.