Manturam Pakhira is a Trinamool Congress politician and a former minister of Sundarbans Affairs in the Government of West Bengal. He is son of Kalipada Pakhira, he is a social worker.
On 30 September 2020, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and thereafter hospitalized in ID & BG Hospital in Kolkata.
Politics
Pakhira was first elected from Kakdwip (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in South 24 Parganas in 2001, and again elected in 2011.
He was inducted as a Minister of State in charge of Sunderbans Development in November 2012.
He served as MLA of Kakdwip till 2026. In the 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, he was defeated by Dipankar Jana by 4,760 votes.
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