Santanu Sen | |
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Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
Assumed office 3 April 2018 | |
Preceded by | Vivek Gupta, AITC |
Constituency | West Bengal |
Personal details | |
Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 26 December 1972
Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Spouse | Dr. Kakuli Sen |
Children | 1 |
Santanu Sen is an Indian doctor and politician. He was a councilor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.[1] He is a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal.[2][3][4][5] He was the President of the Indian Medical Association.[6]
Shantanu Sen was born into a Bengali family.
On 22 July 2021, he snatched the papers on Pegasus scandal from the hands of the IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in the Rajya Sabha, tore it and threw it towards the Deputy Chairman.[7] Because of his parliamentary behavior, he was suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of monsoon session.[8]