Becharam Manna
Becharam Manna is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress. He won the Haripal seat by a margin of 22,000 votes, in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly elections. The Singur seat was retained by the sitting Trinamool Congress MLA, Rabindranath Bhattacharya. He also became Minister of State of the Agriculture Department, Government of West Bengal for few days. He was the first person to challenge the Tata group at Singur, when the Nano plant was being constructed. He is the convener of Krishi Jami Raksha Samiti, a group agitating for the protection of agricultural land. At 2021 Elections  in West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made a candidate from Singur and his wife from his constituency Haripal. They both win in the election. After the election Mamta Banarjee made him Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Department of Labour (West Bengal) Background. Becharam Manna belongs to a poor family of sharecroppers living at Ratanpur. His Education qualification is class 7 failed. He worked in a jute mill for some time. After winning in the elections, he confirmed that at Singur land had been “forcibly taken from nearly 2,900 villagers”.