Anubrata Mondal is an Indian politician and businessman. He hit the headlines in August 2022 after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested him in a multi-crore cattle smuggling case. He is also known to be one of the closest aides of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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Anubrata Mondal was born on Wednesday, April 1, 1959, in Bolpur, Birbhum District, West Bengal, India (age 65; as of 2024). His zodiac sign is Aries. Anubrata studied only up to the eighth level.
family
Anubrata Mondal belongs to a lower-middle-class agricultural family in Bangladesh.
Parents and siblings
His father Kripasindhu Mondal was a businessman. His mother’s name was Pushpalani Mondal. She died in April 2019.
Photos of Anubrata Mondal’s parents
He is the eldest son among five siblings. One of his sisters is Shibani Ghosh. His brother Sumit Mondal is a primary school teacher.
wife and children
His wife’s name is Chhabi Mondal. She died of cancer in January 2020. His daughter Sukanya Mondal is a primary school teacher and businesswoman.
Anubrata Mondal and his wife during marriage
Sukanya Mondal with her mother
Relationships/Affairs
Anubrata Mondal dated Chhabi Mondal for a few years before getting married.
Photos of Chappy Mondal
religion
Anubrata Mondal is a Hindu.
Signature/Autograph
Anubrata Mondal’s signature
Profession
politics
Anubrata Mondal used to run a small grocery store to make ends meet. Later he also worked as a fish merchant. His political career began in the early 1990s when he joined the Indian National Congress (INC).
Anubrata Mondal and Rajiv Gandhi
He met Mamata Banerjee in the 1990s when she was the president of the Bengal Youth Congress. He left the INC in 1998 amid growing differences between Mamata Banerjee and the INC’s senior leaders. In the same year, Anubrata joined the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC). In 2000, he was appointed TMC Birbhum district president. According to Anubrata, he never contested elections because he did not want to become a minister. He said in an interview,
I never contested a general or parliamentary election because I never aspired to become a minister. I don’t want it. As a loyal party member, I am happy to work for the party. “
As a senior leader of the TMC, he successfully organized several state elections in which the TMC achieved landslide victories. After the TMC formed the government in West Bengal in 2011, his power grew manifold. Anubharat Mondal also served as Chairman of West Bengal State Rural Development Authority (WBSRDA) and Chairman of Tarapith Development Authority. In February 2022, he was selected into the TMC National Working Committee.
Anubrata Mondal and Mamata Banerjee pictured
Business
In 1990, Anubrata Mondal founded Mayurakshi Cotton Mills in Birbhum, West Bengal. He was appointed director of the plant on April 9, 2013. He also had more than 16 rice mills registered in his name in West Bengal, according to CBI data. He also owns 2500 shares of ANM Agrochem Foods.
dispute
Condoning violence during elections
Anubrata Mondal has often courted controversy for committing violence in West Bengal, especially during elections. In 2013, Mondal made headlines for publicly threatening non-TMC candidates during the panchayat campaign in Birbhum district. At a rally, he asked TMC workers to burn down the houses of opposition candidates and attack police forces deployed on election duty with crude bombs. Congress and BJP candidates also accused him of asking his supporters to attack candidates seeking to fill poll nominations. Talking about the incident, the then Birbhum district PPP president Dudhkumar Mondal said,
Sujay Biswas and Biswajit Baidya of the BJP were dragged out of the BDO office and beaten up. They suffered severe head injuries. In Rapppur, Kashinath Mishra of our district was beaten up and he was hospitalized with head injuries. “
His comments and actions were criticized by the opposition, which complained to the state electoral commission. Mamata later defended him and accused the media of trying to create TRP by distorting his statement and ignoring his hypoxic health condition. In 2014, he was accused of supporting the murder of Sagar Ghosh, the father of Hriday Ghosh, an independent candidate from Birbhum, Hri Di Ghosh had contested in the 2013 panchayat elections. According to reports, Anuprata made provocative speeches during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the 2016 Bengal Assembly elections, and was subsequently placed on the watch list of the Election Commission of India (ECI). In the 2018 panchayat polls, several non-TMC candidates accused Mondal of instructing his supporters to prevent other candidates from filing nominations. During the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) filed a case against Anubrata after TMC workers beat up BJP worker Bapi Ankure to death. The BJP said in its complaint that Babi was murdered by TMC workers on the orders of Anubrata as he wanted to create an “atmosphere of fear” in Bengal. A video has gone viral on the internet in which Anubrata threatens a senior police officer that he will face dire consequences if he is restrained.
The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has filed a complaint with the Election Commission, “alleging TMC leader Anubrata Mondol and party workers of cold-blooded murder of BJP workers and creating an atmosphere of fear ” pic.twitter.com/uoUVUelL0r
— ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2021
Anubrata Mondal’s name is also associated with the Bogtuyi massacre in March 2022, when eight people were burned alive in a fight.
Money laundering and livestock smuggling charges
In 2020, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR against Anubrata Mondal, his bodyguard Saigal Hossain, Enamul Haque and BSF commander Satish Kumar. The CBI alleged in the FIR that Anubrata was involved in cross-border cattle smuggling between 2015 and 2017 and earned crores of rupees through the activity. On August 12, 2022, Anubrata was detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after she failed to appear before the Kolkata investigation team even after being summoned ten times. A CBI official said in an interview,
We arrested him for not cooperating with the investigation into the cattle smuggling case. Mondal was found to be directly involved in the scam. We will question him today and take necessary action in accordance with the law. “
He was later produced before a court in Asansol, which sent him to CBI custody, after which he was taken to the Correctional Center in Asansol. In November 2022, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed another chargesheet against Anubrata Mondal, accusing him of laundering money by smuggling cattle to Bangladesh through lottery. Mondal sought to regularize proceeds from livestock smuggling by showing he had won a lottery of Rs. 1 Crore from a lottery company in Nagaland in December 2021. However, the CBI claimed that in 2019, two years before 2021, Rs 10 lakh was deposited in Mondal’s account and Rs 51 lakh was deposited in two installments in the account of his daughter Sukanya. A CBI investigator said in an interview,
Mondal tried to regularize income from livestock smuggling through some lottery prizes. The investigation continues to find out if and how he and his daughter won the lottery multiple times. “
CBI at Anubrata Mondal office
In November 2022, a Bolpur lottery businessman named Bapi Ganguly claimed that Anubrata Mondal did not win the Rs 1 crore lottery ticket; The real winner was a young man named Sheikh Noor Ali. During the interrogation of Sheikh Noor Ali’s father, it was discovered that Mondal purchased lottery tickets from Ali and promised to pay him Rs 8.3 million. Ali’s father said that initially Rs 5-7 lakh was deposited into his bank account, however, when he demanded the remaining amount, he started receiving death threats. Talking about this in an interview, Bapi said,
This rare lottery ticket was actually sold by Rahul Lottery Agency in Bolpur. Kalam Sheikh, a retailer, sold it to Noor Ali, a resident of a village near Bolpur. Anubrata Mondal bought the lottery ticket (from Noor) for Rs 83 lakh. Noor Ali is telling the truth. He didn’t lie to anyone. The sale of lottery tickets was mediated by Biswajyoti Banerjee (Trinamul MP from Bolpur) and I personally checked whether the tickets were genuine as they had no experience in lottery business at all. “
In November 2022, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Anubrata Mondal in connection with the cross-border cattle smuggling case.
Anubrata Mondal was escorted to Asansol court by CRPF
Following the Supreme Court order, he was released on bail on July 30, 2024.
teaching scandal
In 2022, Anubrata Mondal was accused of having his daughter Sukanya Mondal, his brother and his close Acquaintances are appointed as government teachers in primary schools while they have failed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET). Development Board. However, Anubrata refuted the allegations against him and his daughter and said he has all the evidence to prove that his daughter passed the TET exam. Anubrata said in an interview,
She has passed the exam and received a certificate. The court has not yet summoned her [Sukanya]. It simply asked her to produce documents. “
salary/income
According to CBI data, Anubrata Mondal’s annual revenue in 2020-21 was Rs 1,44,90,090.
characteristic
According to the CBI, Anubrata Mondal has 24 properties in her name. He also owns a 31.2-acre farmland in Sian, Birbhum district, West Bengal. He also purchased six “unnamed” petrol pumps in West Bengal and owned over a hundred dump trucks. According to sources, Anubrata has acquired 240 acres of land over the years.
Facts/Trivia
- Anubrata Mondal is also known as Keshto Da.
- In the chargesheet filed by the CBI in October 2022, the CBI claimed that from 2013 to 2022, Anubrata purchased properties worth Rs 65 crore. Between 2015 and 2021, he sold properties worth Rs 2.19 crore.
- Although Anubrata Mondal never held a cabinet ministership, he used to travel around West Bengal in a car with a red beacon.
- On November 26, 2021, Anubrata Mondal was appointed as Director of West Bengal Swarojgar Corporation Limited, an unlisted company of the Government of West Bengal.
- In 2022, Anubrata Mondal published an autobiography titled Khela Hobe.
Anubrata Mondal photos taken during the launch of her new book Khela Hobe
- He follows a non-vegetarian diet.
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