Sabitri Mitra is an Indian politician, belonging to the Trinamool Congress, who has served as Cabinet Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare in the Government of West Bengal.
She earlier served as MLA of Araidanga constituency in Malda district from 1991 until 2011, when she defected from the Indian National Congress to join the Trinamool Congress.
She also served as the Vice-President of the West Bengal People's Congress Committee (WBPCC) during her affiliation with the INC.
Her strained relationship with WBPCC President and now Minister for Irrigation & Inland Waterways and Small & Micro Enterprises and Textiles in the Government of West Bengal, Manas Bhunia, has been widely publicized.
[3] One of the first decisions she took as the Minister for Women & Child Development and Social Welfare in the Government of West Bengal was to dismiss any retired officials in her Ministry still clinging on to their jobs.