India, April 26 -- Minakshi Mukherjee is a young leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a prominent face of its student and youth movement in West Bengal. She rose through the Students' Federation of India, building her political identity around student rights, education issues, and campus activism.

In the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, she is contesting from the Uttarpara constituency in Hooghly district as a CPI(M) candidate. She faces a three-way contest against BJP's Dipanjan Chakraborty and TMC's Kanchak Mallick, making it a closely watched triangular battle between the three major political forces in the state.

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