Shyamali Pradhan (born 2 August 1972[1]) is an Indian politician and former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
[3] Shyamali Pradhan is a resident of Nanoor town in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal belonging to a Scheduled Caste family.
[4] In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Shyamali Pradhan was nominated to contest from the Nanoor constituency in West Bengal as the candidate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), one of the constituent parties of the Left Front coalition.
[7][2] The anti-communist Trinamool Congress[8] in the prior four years had reportedly engaged in political repression through intimidation and violence against volunteers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and later became the subject of factional infighting with the emergence of two local factions in the Nanoor constituency, one of which openly backed Pradhan's candidacy during the campaigning period.
The leadership of the Trinamool Congress reacted to the incident by claiming that the infighting was orchestrated by the communists which was denied by Pradhan.