Biplobi Bangla Congress (

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: Revolutionary Bengal Congress; BBC) is a

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. The party emerged as a splinter group of

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ahead of the 1971 elections of

. This political Party was founded by Late Sukumar Roy, a prominent Congress leader of Bengal. BBC is now the part of the Left Front.

History

Formation of BBC by the late Sukumar Roy is an important part in the history of

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. Congress party hold the power of state for the first two decades after

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, before trying out another grouping in 1967. At that time, the first United Front government came to power with

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of the

(a Congress splinter group) as chief minister, Jyoti Basu as deputy chief minister and ministry of land and land revenue (reforms) as

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. Thereafter followed four years of political instability due to the Naxalite rebellion and police counter-action, the Congress muscled its way back to power in the 1972 elections, when even Jyoti Basu lost his assembly seat to a nonentity by 40,000 votes. In 1977, the voters brought the Biplobi Bangla Congress and Left Front merged to power, with latter retaining the title and from since then they remained firm as the ruling party of

for 34 years. Some Prominent leaders of Biplobi Bangla Congress are Late Nirmalendu Bhattacharya, Late Gouranga Samanta, Ashis Chowdhury, Late Sunil Chowdhury, Deepak Senroy (SUBRATA ROY). Late Gouranga Samanta was elected as MLA two times from Dabang, Medinipur. Other MLAs were Dr Makhan Lal Bangal, Tushar Laya. Dr. Umesh Chaudhary & Reeta Chowdhury were Councillor in KMC (Kolkata Municipal Corporation) in different times.
The flag adopted by the party is red & white (3:1 ratio) with Hammer & Plough symbol at the center.

Contested elections

BBC candidate Tushar Kanti Laya contested the Sabong seat in

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for 2001 assembly elections of the state and won it. In the 2006 assembly elections of West Bengal, BBC again contested the Sabong seat with Tushar Kanti Laya as its candidate (on a

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symbol). Laya got 62,079 votes (44.98%), but lost the seat to

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candidate Dr.

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References

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