Sharmistha Mukherjee is an Indian Kathak dancer and choreographer turned politician. She is the daughter of Pranab Mukherjee and a member of the Indian National Congress.
Wiki/Biography
Sharmistha Mukherjee was born on Saturday, October 30, 1965, in West Bengal (age 54; as of 2019). Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. She was educated at Lady Owen’s School, Derry. She graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and graduated in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Sharmista Mukherjee and her father
Shamista grew up in Delhi. After seeing Pandit Durgalal perform at an event, she decided to learn Kathak from him. At the age of 12, she started training under Durgalal and later under Vidushi Uma Sharma and Rajendra Gangani.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′4″
Eye color: brown
Hair color: black
family, caste and husband
She belongs to a Bengali family. Her father, Pranab Mukherjee, was an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India. Her mother, Suvra Mukherjee (singer and painter), was the First Lady of India (from 2012 to her death in 2015).
Shamista Mukherjee’s parents
She has two brothers: Abhijit Mukherjee and Indrajit Mukherjee. Abhijit Mukherjee is a politician and the constituency of Janjipur Assembly. Former MP.
Abhijit Mukherjee, brother of Shamista Mukherjee
Sharmistha Mukherjee and her brother Indrajit
Profession
dance
Sharmishta has performed in more than 40 countries. Over the years, she developed her own kathak dance style and even performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto.
Samitha Mukherjee performs on stage
politics
Shamista joined the Indian National Congress (INC) in July 2014.
indian national congress party logo
She has been actively participating in party rallies and working with party grassroots workers. In 2015, she contested the Delhi Assembly elections from the Greater Kailash constituency and received 6102 votes, losing to Saurabh Bharadwaj (AAP; 57,589 votes) and Rakesh Gullaiya (BJP; 43,006 votes). Shamista was appointed communications director of Delhi Congress but she resigned from the post on February 14, 2019. In 2019, she was appointed by Rahul Gandhi as the communications director of Delhi Mahela Congress. Shamista has been appointed as Communications Director of Delhi Mahela Congress along with Anshul Kumar. In June 2019, he served as the national spokesperson of the Congress.
Shamista Mukherjee and Sonia Gandhi
dispute
- In 2016, a man named Partha Mandal kept sending her offensive messages on her Facebook Messenger. She exposed online harassers on her Facebook account. Her post went viral and she was praised for taking a strong stand against such online harassers. Her post read –
This pervert Partha Mandal is sending me dirty sexual messages. My first reaction was to ignore and block him. But then I thought the silence would encourage him to find other victims. Simply blocking and reporting is not enough. I feel strongly that people like this should not be publicly exposed and humiliated. I posted screenshots of his profile and the messages he sent me. I tag him too. Please share this article and tag this rat as a message that these perverted behaviors are not taken lightly.
- In 2017, the Indian National Congress released a photo of Rajiv Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee with the title “Rajiv Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee, 1985.” This offended Sharmista and she lashed out at the Congress for not addressing her father as “Shri” when he was the president of the country. Shortly after her tweet went viral, INC deleted their tweet.
- In 2018, after Pranab Mukherjee attended an RSS event in Nagpur on June 7, rumors about her joining the BJP started doing the rounds on the internet. She was outraged by the rumors, writing on her Twitter account:
Enjoying the beautiful sunset on the hills, suddenly the news that I was joining the BJP hit me like a torpedo! Can’t there be a little peace and sanity in this world? I joined politics because I believed in Congress. Would rather leave politics than leave Congress.
- In December 2019, Shamista, along with some other members of the Delhi Mahila Congress, was detained near Amit Shah’s residence and taken to the Mandir Marg police station while she was protesting against the Citizenship Bill 2019. Amendment) Act.
Sharmistha Mukherjee protests against CAA
address
Resident-S-22, Second Floor Grand Kailash-II, ND-110048
assets/property
She owns movable and immovable properties worth approximately Rs. 2.9 Crore (2014).
favorite thing
- Poet: Rabindranath Tagore
- Political Leader: Subhas Chandra Bose
- Musicians: Buddhaditya Mukherjee (sitar player), Swapan Chaudhuri (tabra player)
- Philosopher: Swami Vivekananda
- Singer: MS Subbulakshmi
Facts/Trivia
- She enjoys reading and listening to Indian classical music.
- Shamista’s grandfather, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was a freedom fighter who served as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council from 1952 to 1964. He is also a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
- Sharmista has previously stated that she is not interested in politics and is more focused on her dance career. However, she joined INC in 2015.
- Due to her mother’s deteriorating health, Sharmista had to serve as temporary hostess of the presidential palace and accompany her father to many official meetings.
Samitha Mukherjee’s mother
- Sharmista has always been outspoken about women’s issues in India and has expressed her views openly on social media platforms. She is often seen making bold statements in public, even if it means going against her father’s views. She said in an interview,
That’s how I was raised, and that’s why I have no problem expressing my differences with him on issues even in public. We were a democratic, argumentative family; & I only learned that from my dad.
- According to Shamista, she was the only one in the family who could argue with her father. When she was a child, her father affectionately called her “Monkey”.
- When she was studying in Class 12, she started performing with the tutor group and barely studied. Her mother always told her to study, but she had no intention of studying. A few months before the exam, her father told her that it was absolutely fine; if she didn’t want to study, she shouldn’t expect him to help her get into a good university later. This sparked her self-awareness and she started studying hard.
Sharmista Mukherjee and her father
- Sharmistha first walked the ramp in 2013 at a charity event organized by Earth Foundation, hosted by the Turkish Embassy in Delhi.
Sharmistha Mukherjee walks on the ramp
- In 2023, Sharmistha Mukherjee authored a book titled Pranab, My Father: In Memory of a Daughter. The book narrates various incidents from her father Pranab’s diary, his shared thoughts and his interactions with several politicians. Furthermore, it also sheds light on his relationship with various politicians, including Rahul Gandhi, whom he considered politically immature.
Cover page of the book Pranab, My Father: Memories of a Daughter (2023)
Categories: Biography
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