Career
He is a Modern Language Association, elected from the Ballygunge constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He has been Village Development and Panchyat Minister since 27 December 2011. In 1999, he joined hands with Mamata Banerjee, parting ways with the Indian National Congress.
This decision came from the Congress Modern Language Association, as Indian National Congress denied the INTUC General Secretary of the nomination to the governing body of the International Labor Organization for the second term.
He was made the Mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2000, as a Trinamool Congress candidate. As Mayor, he had dreamt of a 300 ft-high Kolkata gate on EM Bypass, which would have cost Rs.
20-crore. However, the project could not see the daylight, as it could not obtain clearance from the Pollution Control Board.
In May 2010, he left the Indian National Congress again and rejoined Trinamool Congress, leaving the post of Pradesh Congress Working President. In December 2011, he was given the additional charge of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development ministry, and replaced Chandranath Sinha.
In February 2012, he was made the All India President of the INTTUC, instead of Sobhandeb Chatterjee. Under the leadership of Shru Subrata Mukherjee, the Public Health Engineering Department of the West Bengal Government launched some very innovative yet useful water treatment projects.
The Water air traffic management was installed in Ekdalia Evergreen Club during the Durga Puja Festival of 2015, which would dispense 1 liter of Purified, chilled drinking water at Rs.
2. Seeing the success of the Water air traffic management during the pujas, the current Chief Minister of the state, Smt. Mamata Banerjee took up the project across the state.
The Public Health Engineering Department also took up the project of providing packaged mineral water, Prandhara, in the same year.