Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury

Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury (born 17 August 1957) is an Indian advocate and politician who is currently serving as the Chairman of English Bazar Municipality. He has served as the Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Minister of Food processing and Horticulture from West Bengal. He was former MLA from English Bazar and State General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress.

Introduction
Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury, son of Manindra Narayan Choudhury, was born in 1958 in a well known jamindar family of Malda District. He is BA and LLB from Calcutta University.

Political forays
He started his political journey in 1974 with Congress. After several years he left Congress in 1998 and joined Trinamool Congress, but returned to Congress in 2006. He subsequently rejoined Trinamool Congress in 2013.

Electoral achievements
He had won the English Bazar seat in 2006 and 2011 as a Congress candidate. After switching over to Trinamool Congress the second time, he won a by-election in 2013 from the same constituency.

Ministerial berths
He initially joined the Council of Ministers of West Bengal as tourism minister in 2013 and was shifted to food processing and horticulture department in 2014.

He was also Chairman of English Bazar municipality for several year in subsequent term in 1995, 2000, 2010 and 2015.