Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya (Bengali: বিকাশ রঞ্জন ভট্টাচার্য; born 27 November 1951) is an Indian politician and lawyer.
100, Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2005, defeating influential Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee.
[6] As Mayor of Kolkata, he undertook several projects including sewerage systems in the city and took initiative to provide birth certificates to street children.
Being a senior advocate he has become the poster-boy of TMC government opposition by his cascading eloquence and fiery oratory.
He fought from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in 2019 Indian general election in West Bengal for CPI(M) in which he faced defeat and received third position behind Mimi Chakraborty of Trinamool Congress party and Anupam Hazra of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Earlier in 2017, he contested for a Rajya Sabha seat in West Bengal, however, his nomination was disqualified due to technical issues.