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Asansol (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Asansol in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 40 Asansol Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Bardhaman district. Overview On the eve of 2014 elections, ''The Statesman'' described the constituency as follows: "The Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is conspicuous by its mixed population — coal mine workers, factory workers, coal mafia, scrap dealers, minority population and a large section of Hindi speaking population." ''The New Indian Express'' said that the constituency was dotted with coal mines and 50% of the electorate was Hindi speaking. ''The Statesman'' has put the proportion of non-Bengali voters in the constituency at 36%. The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the current Chief Minister of West Bengal, who has led the state since 2011. It is currently the third largest party in Parliament with 23 members in Lok Sabha and 13 members in Rajya Sabha and 235 MLAs in State legislative assemblies of India, just after BJP and INC. In 2016 the Election Commission recognised TMC as a national political party. History Founding After being a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) for over 26 years, Mamata Banerjee quit the INC and established the TMC in 1998. The official election symbol of the TMC is ''Jora Ghas Phul'' (two flowers with grass). In the 1998 Lok Sabha polls, TMC won 7 seats. In the next Lok Sabha election that was held in 1999, Trinamool Congress won 8 seats with BJP, thus increasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delimitation Commission
The Delimitation commission or Boundary commission of India is a commission established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act. The main task of the commission is redrawing the boundaries of the various assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on a recent census. The representation from each State is not changed during this exercise. However, the number of SC and ST seats in a state are changed in accordance with the census. The present delimitation of constituencies has been done on the basis of 2001 census under the provisions of Delimitation Act, 2002. The Commission is a powerful and independent body whose orders cannot be challenged in any court of law. The orders are laid before the Lok Sabha and the respective State Legislative Assemblies. However, modifications are not permitted. History Delimitation commissions have been set up four times in the past — 1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002 — under Delimitation Commission Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deben Sen
Deben Sen (1897/1899? – 19 April 1971) was an Indian trade union activist and politician. Early life The son of Dwarikanath Sen, of Faridpur (now in Bangladesh), Deben Sen joined the civil disobedience movement and was arrested at Dhaka in 1930, when he was a post graduate student.Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical Dictionary), Chief Editor: Subodh Chandra Sengupta, Editor: Anjali Bose, 4th edition 1998, , Vol I, pages 218-19, , Sishu Sahitya Samsad Pvt. Ltd., 32A Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata. Trade Union activities Deben Sen was a very effective trade union organiser, spreading his activities in Calcutta of the mid-thirties across railways, tramways and electric supply organisations. In 1937, he organized a historic jute industry strike. In 1956, he led a strike of 56,000 workers in Asansol for 27 days. He visited many countries in connection with trade union work and was leader of the Indian delegation to the London Trade Union Conference in 1948. Involvem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Lok Sabha
List of Members of the 4th Lok Sabha (4 March 1967 – 27 December 1970), elected February–March 1967. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India.13 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 4th Lok Sabha after the 1967 Indian general election. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister as in the previous 3rd Lok Sabha and in the next 5th Lok Sabha, which was constituted after the 1971 Indian general election. Important members * Speaker: ** N. Sanjiva Reddy from 03-17–67 to 07-19–69 **Gurdial Singh Dhillon from 08-08–69 to 03-19–71 * Deputy Speaker: ** R.K.Khadilkar from 03-28–67 to 11-01–69 ** G.G.Swell from 12-09–69 to 12–27–70 *Secretary General: **S. L. Shakdhar S. L. Shakdher (1918–2002) was a Chief Election Commissioner of India and former Secretary-General of 3rd Lok Sabha, 4th Lok Sabha and 5th Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament of India). He was Chief Election Commissioner from 1977 to 1982. H ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Lok Sabha
List of Members of the 3rd Lok Sabha, (2 April 1962 – 3 March 1967) elected February–March 1962. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. The election was held for 494 seats out of which Indian national congress won 361 seats. 14 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 3rd Lok Sabha after the 1962 Indian general election. Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister as in 1st Lok Sabha and 2nd Lok Sabha, till his death on 27 May 1964. Gulzarilal Nanda became acting Prime Minister for 13 days, before Lal Bahadur Shastri became Prime Minister on 9 June 1964. After Shastri's death on 11 January 1966, Nanda became acting Prime Minister again for 13 days. Later Indira Gandhi, Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh became Prime Minister on 24 January 1966. The next 4th Lok Sabha was constituted on 4 March 1967 after 1967 Indian general election. Important members * Speaker: ** Sardar Hukam Singh from 17 April 1962 to 16 March 1967 * Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atulya Ghosh
Atulya Ghosh (28 August 1904 – 18 April 1986) was a Bengali Indian politician.Bose, Anjali (editor), 1996/2004, ''Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary) Vol II, , pp8-9, He has been described as "a wise, scholarly and honest leader who was a superb political organizer. " Formative years He was born in a Sadgop Family on 28 August 1904. The family hailed from Jejur in Hooghly district. In the early 1920s, he quit studies to become a Congress ''khadi'' (hand spun cloth became a symbol of self-reliance) worker. He was a member first of the Calcutta and then Hooghly district Congress committees. During this period he also came in contact with Bhupendranath Dutta (brother of Narendranath Dutta, better known as Swami Vivekananda). According to his own admission in his autobiography ( Kashtokalpito) he was fully converted to the Gandhian mode of struggle by Vijay Modak, a well known philanthropist and Congress organizer of the Hooghly district. According to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, along with its main rival the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is a "big tent" party whose platform is generally considered to lie in the centre to of Indian politics. After Indian independence in 1947, Congress emerged as a catch-all and secular party, dominating Indian politics for the next 20 years. The party's first prime minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mono Mohan Das
Dr. Mono Mohan Das was a Congress politician and a Union Deputy Minister. Early life He was born in a Vaidya Family to Purna Chandra Das at Nawpara, Purba Bardhaman district, in March 1910. He was educated at Central Collegiate School, City College and Calcutta Medical College. He worked for some time as sanitary officer in Kolkata Corporation. He was married to Prativamoyee in 1933. Political career After being associated with Forward Bloc for a short period, he joined Congress in 1936. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly from 1948 to 1950 and of the Provisional Parliament from 1950 to 1952. He was elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952 from one of the two seats of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency). The other seat was won by Atulya Ghosh. In 1957, he was elected from one of the two seats of the newly formed Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency) Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Asansol i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Lok Sabha
The Second Lok Sabha (5 April 1957 – 31 March 1962) was elected after the 1957 Indian general election. The 2nd Lok Sabha lasted its full tenure of five years till 1962. 15 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 2nd Lok Sabha after the Indian general elections, 1957. Members * Speaker: M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar (8 March 1956 – 16 April 1962) * Deputy Speaker: Sardar Hukam Singh, (20 March 1956 – 31 March 1962) * Secretary: M. N. Kaul (27 July 1947 – 1 September 1964) List of members by political party Members by the political party in 2nd Lok Sabha are given below See also *Politics of India *List of Indian constituencies The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, is made up of Members of Parliament ( MPs). Each MP, represents a single geographic constituency. There are currently 543 constituencies while maximum seats will fill up to 550 (after ar ... * 3rd Lok Sabha References External links {{Parliament of India Terms of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukhra Assembly Constituency
Ukhra Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was reserved for scheduled castes. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Ukhra Assembly constituency ceased to exist and No. 275 Pandaveswar assembly constituency was created from 2011. It covers Pandabeswar and Faridpur-Durgapur community development blocks. Pandaveswar assembly segment is part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). For Members of Legislative Assembly in the Ukhra (Lok Sabha constituency), see Pandaveswar Assembly constituency. Election results 1977-2006 Madan Bauri of CPI (M) won the Ukhra (SC) assembly seat in 2006 and 2001 defeating his nearest rivals Upender Paswan of JD(U) and Nirmal Maji of Trinamool Congress respectively. Lakhan Bagdi of CPI (M) won the seat in 1996, 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977, defeating Jethu Ram of Congress in 1996, Gopal Mondal of Congress in 1991, Haradhan Mondal of Congress in 1987 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirapur Assembly Constituency
Hirapur Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in what is now Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Hirapur is the police station for the Burnpur area and the assembly constituency covered that area. Hirapur assembly constituency was part of Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). The Delimitation Commission abolished Hirapur as an assembly constituency in 2011. The area is now covered under Asansol Dakshin Assembly constituency. Election results 1977-2006 Amitava Mukhopadhyay of CPI(M) won the Hirapur assembly seat in 2006, defeating his nearest rival Moloy Ghatak of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Moloy Ghatak of Trinamool Congress defeated Dilip Ghosh (Independent). In 1996, Shyamadas Banerjee of Congress defeated Mumtaz Hussein of Janata Dal Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adivasi
The Adivasi refers to inhabitants of Indian subcontinent, generally tribal people. The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. The term is also used for ethnic minorities, such as Chakmas of Bangladesh, Khas of Nepal, and Vedda of Sri Lanka. The Constitution of India does not use the word ''Adivasi'', instead referring to Scheduled Tribes and Janjati. The government of India does not officially recognise tribes as indigenous people. The country ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 107 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the United Nations (1957) and refused to sign the ILO Convention 169. Most of these groups are included in the Scheduled Tribe category under constitutional provisions in India. They comprise a substantial minority population of India and Bangladesh, making up 8.6% of India's population and 1.1% of Bangladesh's, or 104.2&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
