Kolkata-born Raj Mukherji elected to New Jersey state assembly

He has been named in Politicker's annual Power List as one of New Jersey's '100 most politically influential personalities' as well as in the Forty under 40 list by NJBIZ.

He holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Thomas Edison State College.

According to his website, Mukherji supported himself through high school, college and grad school as an emancipated minor when his parents were forced to return to India due to economic constraints.

His father Asim Mukherji was an accountant who could not work because of health reasons and could not afford health coverage without employment.