Senior Advocate and former West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Satyabrata Mookherjee was on Thursday posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan..He received India's third-highest civilian award in the field of Public Affairs..Mookherjee, who passed away in March last year, was known as an expert in company laws and was the father of former West Bengal Advocate General SN Mookherjee.He was educated at Calcutta University and did his bar-at-law from Lincoln's Inn in London.He served as a Union Minister of State in the Commerce and Chemical Ministries when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Prime Minister of India.He also served as an Additional Solicitor General (ASG) till 1999, before being elected to the Lok Sabha from the Krishnagar constituency, as a BJP candidate.He was the President of BJP's West Bengal State unit between 2008 and 2009..Late Supreme Court judge Justice Fathima M Beevi awarded Padma Bhushan.[Read list of Indian Civilian Awardees 2024]
Senior Advocate and former West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Satyabrata Mookherjee was on Thursday posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan..He received India's third-highest civilian award in the field of Public Affairs..Mookherjee, who passed away in March last year, was known as an expert in company laws and was the father of former West Bengal Advocate General SN Mookherjee.He was educated at Calcutta University and did his bar-at-law from Lincoln's Inn in London.He served as a Union Minister of State in the Commerce and Chemical Ministries when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was Prime Minister of India.He also served as an Additional Solicitor General (ASG) till 1999, before being elected to the Lok Sabha from the Krishnagar constituency, as a BJP candidate.He was the President of BJP's West Bengal State unit between 2008 and 2009..Late Supreme Court judge Justice Fathima M Beevi awarded Padma Bhushan.[Read list of Indian Civilian Awardees 2024]
