Abhishek Banerjee

Abhishek Banerjee is an Indian politician who represents Diamond Harbour in the Lok Sabha and is a senior leader of the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. He was born in Kolkata on 7 November 1987 and first entered Parliament on 16 May 2014. He was re-elected in 2019 and 2024.

Banerjee led the Trinamool Youth Congress from July 2011 to June 2021 and has been a general secretary of the party since 2021. According to Wikipedia, he became the party’s national general secretary and its leader in the Lok Sabha in September 2026.

He has been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with alleged coal smuggling and school recruitment cases.

He is in the news because of a hearing at the Calcutta High Court on 12 November 2026. The court reserved its order on his petition challenging a cut in his security cover from Z+ to X category. Justice Krishna Rao asked his lawyer for a list of judges he considers to be with the BJP, after the state’s counsel called his social media remarks contempt of court. Banerjee’s counsel said the comments were made in the context of pending petitions.

Sources: Wikipedia, ETV Bharat, The Hans India.