Haripada Bharati (also known as "Master Mosai")who was the West bengal who served as a first president of Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal. In 1977 he was elected MLA from Jorabagan Assembly Constituency as a

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

candidate. He was also the Principal of

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, Howrah.

Political career

He contested the General election of 1967 as

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candidate from Calcutta North West and got 82,455 (21.08%) votes. In General election of 1971 he again contested as an independent candidate from the same constituency and got around 34,397 (21.08%) votes. In the year 1980, he again contested from

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candidate and got 31846 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bharati, Haripada West Bengal MLAs 1977–1982 Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal Politicians from Kolkata Year of birth missing (living people) Janata Party politicians