[1] She contested the Suri constituency seat in the 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).
[3] As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in Suri.
[10] In the violent environment of the area during the polls, Mukherjee was the sole prominent local political leader that had not sought refugee elsewhere.
[11] Mukherjee lost the Suri seat in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, being defeated by the Congress(I) candidate in a straight contest.
[12] She again contested the Suri seat in the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in third place behind the Congress(I) and CPI(M) candidates.