Indian politician Samir Kumar Jana is a three-time Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Patharpratima Assembly Constituency in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
He represents the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and was most recently elected in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.
Samir Kumar Jana was born in 1950 in Patharpratima, South 24 Parganas district. He is the son of the late Rathikanta Jana.
Before entering full-time politics, he worked as a teacher and is a retired educationist by profession.
The Patharpratima Assembly constituency is located in the Sundarbans region of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal.
Samir Kumar Jana contested from Patharpratima in the 2001 West Bengal Assembly elections but lost to CPI(M) candidate Jajneswar Das.
He again contested in the 2006 elections, where he faced the same opponent and was defeated once more.
However, in the 2011 West Bengal Assembly elections, Samir Kumar Jana contested as a TMC candidate and defeated CPI(M)'s Jajneswar Das by a margin of 14,773 votes, marking his first electoral victory.
He retained the Patharpratima seat as a TMC candidate in the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections and secured 107,595 votes with a vote share of 50.85 percent.
In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, Samir Kumar Jana was re-elected for a third term, polling 120,181 votes and defeating his nearest rival, Asit Kumar Haldar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by a margin of 22,134 votes.
