Senior Advocate S N Mookherjee aka Gopal Mukherjee has been appointed as the Advocate General (AG) of Bengal. This comes as the post fell vacant with senior advocate Kishore Datta resigning on Tuesday due to personal reasons.
In terms of Article 165 (1) of the Constitution of India Governor of West Bengal Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has appointed Shri Gopal Mukherjee, Senior Advocate of High Court at Calcutta, as Advocate General of the state and will hold office “during the pleasure of the Governor”. The governor had iterated, “In terms of Article 165 of the Constitution have accepted with immediate effect resignation submitted by Shri Kishore Datta, Senior Advocate, as Advocate General of State of West Bengal with immediate effect.”
Governor confirmed his resignation in a tweet. Later, he also tweeted about the appointment of Mookherjee as the new AG of Bengal.
Mookherjee hails from a lawyers’ family. His father Satyabrata Miikherjee aka Julu Mukherjee is a renowned lawyer and a former BJP MP from Krishnangar and a former Union minister. His mother was also a well-known advocate of the Calcutta High Court.
Kishore Datta had assumed the post of advocate general in 2017. He is the fourth AG to resign from the position in Mamata Banerjee’s tenure as Chief Minister.
After TMC came to power in 2011, the first AG Anindya Mitra, as well as his successors Bimal Chatterjee and Jayanta Mitra had also resigned from the post.
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