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Second Mukherjee Ministry
The Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry was the coalition government that ruled the Indian state of West Bengal for 13 months, 1969–1970. The Second United Front Cabinet was formed after the 1967 First United Front Cabinet had been dismissed in 1967, President's Rule introduced and a mid-term election held in 1969. The United Front got a renewed popular mandate in the 1969 election, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) calling the shots but with a non-leftist Chief Minister. The 13-month reign of the Second United Front Cabinet was marked by the struggle for comprehensive land reform, labour disputes, political violence and coalition infighting. Background The first United Front cabinet had been dismissed by the West Bengal Governor on 21 November 1967. President's Rule had been introduced in the state on 20 February 1968. A 12-party United Front coalition contested the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, with a 32-point common programme. The election outcome was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourth-most populous and thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the third-largest metropolis, and seventh largest city by population in India. West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, the coastal Sundarbans and the Bay of Bengal. The state's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority. The area's early history featured a succession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sambhu Ghosh
Sambhu Charan Ghosh (10 June 1927 – 15 June 1986) was an Indian politician and scholar, belonging to the All India Forward Bloc. He was a member of the Central Committee of the party. Biography Ghosh was born on 10 June 1927. He was the son of Nityananda Ghosh. He was married to Chitra Ghosh and they had their only son namely Ritabrata Ghosh. Ghosh obtained B.Sc., B.A. and M.A. degrees from Calcutta University. As a student he became a follower of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He took up a position as lecturer of philosophy at Uluberia College. He took part in the Indian struggle for independence and in 1944 he became a member of the All India Forward Bloc. Ghosh served as Commissioner of Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality for many years. He served as president of the West Bengal Municipal Primary Teachers' Association for a short period. He was a co-founder of Jatish Chandra Vidyapith. Ghosh contested the Chinsurah constituency seat in the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golam Yazdani
Dr. Golam Yazdani (1917–2009) was a controversial Bengali politician, six-time MLA, three-time MP and cabinet minister in West Bengal. He was in jail for around three years and went underground for twenty months. Early years Dr. Golam Yazdani, son of Moulvi Raisuddin Ahmed, was born at Barogachi in Malda district in January 1917. He qualified as a doctor, passing M.B.B.S., DTM & H, and D.G.O. from Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and Chittaranjan Seva Sadan, all at Kolkata. He married Maleka Begum in 1980 and had two sons. Political career He won the Kharba seat as an independent candidate in 1957, 1962, 1967 and 1969, and as a CPI(M) candidate in 1971. He did not contest as a candidate in 1972 and won it back as an independent candidate in 1977. At that time Kharba assembly segment was part of Raiganj. Dr. Golam Yazdani successfully contested the Raiganj parliamentary seat as a Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lok Sewak Sangh
The Lok Sewak Sangh ('Union of Servants of the People', abbreviated LSS), or Manbhum Lok Sewak Sangh, was a political party in Purulia District, West Bengal, India. LSS was founded in 1948. The party was the main political force in Purulia District from the independence of India until the fall of the second United Front cabinet. It is not to be confused with the Gandhian social movement by the same name. Background LSS had been set up as a local social movement in Manbhum, by leaders like Nibaranchandra Dasgupta and Bibhuti Dasgupta, who had been released from jail in the early 1930s. LSS was a Gandhian movement working for Swaraj and social reform. They challenged caste hierarchies, preaching to Adivasis and Dalits to participate in social and political life on equal terms with upper caste Hindus. The organization sought to fight against discrimination against lepers. Foundation LSS was constituted as a political party by former leaders of the Indian National Congress, who had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibhuti Dasgupta
Bibhuti Bhusan Das Gupta (15 January 1904 - 15 April 1975)"Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.I in Bengali edited by Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, August 2016 edition Page 482 was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. Early life Das Gupta was born in the village Sonarang in Dacca District in January 1904. He was the son of Rishi Nibaran Chandra Das Gupta. Das Gupta studied at Rajindra College in Faridpur.Lok Sabha. Second Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile'' He didn't finish his college education, but joined the struggle for Indian independence instead. Politics In 1921 he acted as village-level secretary of the Indian National Congress. Between 1922 and 1948 he was a member of the Manbhum District Congress Committee and the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee. Das Gupta was a member of the All India Congress Committee between 1938 and 1948. Dasgupta was one of the Congress leaders in Manbhum that was arrest in connection w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somnath Lahiri
Somnath Lahiri (1 September 1909 – 19 October 1984) was an Indian statesman, writer and a leader of Communist Party of India. He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India from Bengal. He was later elected as a Member of West Bengal Legislative assembly from 1957 to 1977 and also served as a minister between 1967 and 1970. Early life Lahiri became attracted to Marxism under the guidance of Bengali revolutionary Bhupendranath Datta in 1930. Initially, he worked in E.B. Railway workers' union and played an important role with Dr. Ronen Sen and Abdul Halim in building the Communist party's Calcutta Committee. Early political life Lahiri joined the Communist party in 1931, and started working in rail and tram workers Union in Kolkata. In 1933, he organized the first labour association of Tata Iron & Steel in Jamshedpur. He was also elected as an interim general secretary of the CPI in 1935 following the arrest of S. S. Mirajkar. However, Lahiri himself was arrested a few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishnapada Ghosh
Krishnapada Ghosh (1914–1987) was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He served as West Bengal Minister of Labour 1969–1970 and 1977–1985. He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was also a member of the Working Committee of the Centre for Indian Trade Unions. Youth Born in 1914, Ghosh grew up in Khulna. In 1930 he moved to Calcutta, where he joined the student movement. Around 1935/1936 he became a member of the Bengal Labour Party and active in workers activism. After about a year, he became a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of India (along with other Labour Party members). When the Labour Party broke with CPI, he renounced his CPI party membership. Return to the Communist Party In 1945 he again joined CPI. He became a key labour organizer amongst the Kidderpore dock workers and at Saxby and Farmers. Ghosh was jailed in 1948, and remained in prison until 1952. After being freed from jail, Ghosh took up a job at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhakti Bhushan Mandal
Bhakti Bhushan Mandal (1920 – 30 August 2004) was an Indian politician belonging to the All India Forward Bloc. He represented the Dubrajpur seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 1962–1967, 1969–1971 and 1977–2001. Mandal held the post of Minister for Judicial and Legislative in the second United Front cabinet formed in West Bengal in 1969. In the 1970s he took part in founding the Defense Committee, which sought to help Naxalites arrested in staged encounters. Mandal served as Minister for Fisheries and Co-operatives in the first Left Front cabinet.''India Today''. Pressure all round' He was a member of the All India Forward Bloc West Bengal State Committee.''India Today''. ' At the time he was known as a civil rights campaigner and well connected with the Ananda Marg movement. In 1978, he went on a 24-day tour of China and became the president of the India-China Friendship Association. In the early 1980s he led a Mandal Action Commission, which called for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biswanath Mukherjee (politician)
Biswanath Mukherjee (17 April 1915 – 16 October 1991) was an Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India. He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly in 1971 from Midnapore Constituency and 1977 and 1982 from Tamluk Constituency. He started his political career as a student; he was the one of the founder leaders of All India Students' Federation in Bengal. He was the Joint Secretary of AISF. In 1938, students of Calcutta University refused to salute the British flag and restricted by Syama Prasad Mukherjee. He led the huge students' movement to revoke their restriction. He was married to Geeta Mukherjee Geeta Mukherjee (8 January 1924 – 4 March 2000) was an Indian politician and social worker and a four times MLA from Panskura Purba, from 1967 to 1977. As a Member of Parliament, she was elected seven times from the Panskura constituency, ... on 8 November 1942. References Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal West Bengal MLA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers Party Of India
Workers Party of India is a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WPI has its origin in the Democratic Vanguard in India. DV was formed in 1943 when a group led by Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay broke away from the Radical Democratic Party of Manabendra Nath Roy. DV were dissatisfied with the development of RDP into a non-Marxist outfit. Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay had been elected secretary of the Bengal Congress in 1930. On 12 June 1960 DV became the Workers Party of India.Gupta, P.K.S. Political parties in West Bengal'. p. 182, 201 The party adopted a hammer and sickle in a five-pointed star as its symbol. The party held its Second All India Conference in Calcutta in 1965, its Third All India Conference in 1970 and the Fourth All India General Conference in 1971.Gupta, P.K.S. Political parties in West Bengal' The 8th All India Conference was held in 1976. WPI was part of the United Left Front that contested the 1967 West Bengal state assembly election. WPI was part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya
Professor Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya (1 May 1926 – 1998) was an Indian politician and scholar. He served as general secretary of the Workers Party of India. He served as a Minister in both of the United Front governments in West Bengal. Youth Bhattacharya was born on 1 May 1926. He studied at Calcutta University and Leeds University, obtaining Master of Arts, M.A. degrees at both universities. He took part in the Quit India movement and was jailed during the struggle for Indian independence. Bhattacharya came into contact with the Democratic Vanguard leader Jibanlal Chatterjee in 1943. After Chatterjee founded the WPI, Bhattacharya became a key leader of the party. WPI leader Bhattacharya worked as a lecturer in English at Dibrugarh University, Assam, later shifting to Calcutta University, where he retired as Professor of English. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962 cadres of the Communist Party of India, the Socialist Unity Centre of India and WPI were arrested. Bhattacharya, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is a communist party in India. The party was founded on 19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0.4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 1999 and 2004. It is part of the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front (Tripura) and Congress-led United Democratic Front (Kerala). History Development of Anushilan Marxism A major section of the Anushilan movement had been attracted to Marxism during the 1930s, many of them studying Marxist–Leninist literature whilst serving long jail sentences. A minority section broke away from the Anushilan movement and joined the Communist Consolidation, and later the Communist Party of India. The majority of the Anushilan Marxists did however, whilst having adopted Marxist–Leninist thinking, feel hesitant over joining the Communist Party. The Anushilanite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
