Derek O'Brien (politician)
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Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Leader of Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha | |
| Assumed office 19 August 2011 | |
| Appointed by | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Mukul Roy |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| Assumed office 19 August 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Arjun Kumar Sengupta |
| Constituency | West Bengal |
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| Born | 13 March 1961 |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
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| Children | 1 |
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| Website | www |
Derek O'Brien (born 13 March 1961) is an Indian politician, television personality, quizmaster, and author. He has been elected three times as Member of Parliament to the Rajya Sabha. He represents Bengal in Parliament and serves as the Parliamentary Party Leader of the third largest party in Parliament, the All India Trinamool Congress.
In 2012, he represented India and addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He was awarded ‘Parliamentarian Of The Year’ in 2023.
He has addressed students at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, IIMs, IITs and various other premier institutions across India and globally.
For three years in a row he was conferred the Anchor of the Year award by the Indian Television Academy and hosted iconic shows like the much loved Bournvita Quiz Contest.
He is a celebrated author, having authored more than fifty bestselling reference, quiz, and school textbooks.
He is the first and only Anglo-Indian to be elected to Parliament. He fights courageously and consistently for the protection of rights of the economically and socially challenged.
He has raised issues of grave concern and vital importance, relentlessly and fearlessly, inside Parliament and outside it.