Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 2004–2009
Preceded by	Satyabrata Mookherjee
Succeeded by	Tapas Pal
Constituency	Krishnanagar
Personal details
Born	(1969-12-11) 11 December 1969 Nadia, West Bengal
Political party	CPI(M)
Spouse(s)	Avtar Singh
Children	1 son
Residence	Kolkata
As of 17 September, 2006 Source:

Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (Bengali: জ্যোতির্ময়ী সিকদার) was a Member of Parliament, India representing Krishnagar (Lok Sabha constituency) of West Bengal in the 14th Lok Sabha. She is affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). She contested the Krishnanagar seat in 2014 Lok Sabha election also, but could not make it to the Parliament for a second term.

She was an middle distance runner and won the 800 metres at the 1995 Asian Athletics Championships. She went on to win the bronze medals in 800 m and 1500 m events in the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships and gold medals in both the events in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998.^[1]^[2]

She is a recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for the year 1998–1999. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003.^[3] In August 2004, she was in the news when her husband was arrested on charges of running a sex racket in Kolkata.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing India
1998	Asian Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	3rd	800 m
	Asian Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	3rd	1500 m
	Asian Games	Bangkok, Thailand	1st	800 m
	Asian Games	Bangkok, Thailand	1st	1500 m

References

↑ Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-08-20.
↑ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-08-20.
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
↑ Times of India No escape for Sikdar from scandal stigma accessed 6 December 2007
↑ VOA News Political Controversy on the Arrest of Avtar Singh in West Bengal
↑ Rediff.com Jyotirmoyee Sikdar's husband arrested accessed 6 December 2007

External links

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardees

Members of the 11th to 14th Lok Sabha from West Bengal

1st-10th LS Members 15th LS Members

Basudeb Acharia Basudeb Barman Hiten Barman Ranen Barman Sandhya Bauri Susmita Bauri Anil Basu Joachim Baxla Krishna Bose Subrata Bose Sudip Bandyopadhyay Mamata Banerjee Ajay Chakraborty Sujan Chakraborty Swadesh Chakraborty Santasri Chatterjee Somnath Chatterjee A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury Saifuddin Choudhury Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Bansa Gopal Chowdhury Bikash Chowdhury Alakesh Das Gurudas Dasgupta Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Ram Chandra Dome Sudhir Kumar Giri Indrajit Gupta Abul Hasnat Khan Samik Lahiri Moinul Hassan Abdul Mannan Hossain Bir Singh Mahato Sanat Kumar Mandal Hannan Mollah Geeta Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee Satyabrata Mookherjee Rupchand Murmu Amitava Nandy Dawa Narbula Prabodh Panda Ajit Kumar Panja Rupchand Pal Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan Prasanta Pradhan Mohammed Salim Lakshman Chandra Seth Minati Sen Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Tapan Sikdar Tarit Baran Topdar

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

Asian Games champions in women's 800 metres

1962: Chizuko Tanaka (JPN) 1966–1970: Hannah Shezifi (ISR) 1974: Nobuko Kawano (JPN) 1978: Geeta Zutshi (IND) 1982: Chang Yong-ae (PRK) 1986: Lim Chun-ae (KOR) 1990: Li Wenhong (CHN) 1994: Qu Yunxia (CHN) 1998: Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (IND) 2002: K. M. Beenamol (IND) 2006: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR) 2010–2014: Margarita Mukasheva (KAZ)

Asian Games champions in women's 1500 metres

1970: Hannah Shezifi (ISR) 1974: Sun Meihua (CHN) 1978: Kim Ok-Sun (PRK) 1982: Chang Yong-ae (PRK) 1986: Lim Chun-ae (KOR) 1990: Zheng Lijuan (CHN) 1994: Qu Yunxia (CHN) 1998: Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (IND) 2002: Sunita Rani (IND) 2006–2014: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)

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