Manish Gupta is an Indian politician who was the Minister for Power in the Government of West Bengal.

He was a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

In the 2011 Vidhan Sabha election of West Bengal he historically defeated his former boss- the then incumbent Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who remained the MLA of this constituency for twenty-four years by a huge margin of 16684 votes.

[2][3] He served under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal before he retired as an IAS officer.

[5] On 10 March 2017, Manish Gupta was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha, after the seat had fallen vacant after the resignation of Mithun Chakraborty.