Indas Assembly constituency (spelled by the Election Commission as Indus) is an
assembly
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constituency in
Bankura district
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in the
India
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n
state
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of
West Bengal
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. It is reserved for
scheduled castes
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.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 257 Indas Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following:
Indas
Indas (also spelled Indus) is a village, with a police station, in the Indas CD block in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Indas is located at .
Area overview
The map al ...
community development block
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; Balsi I, Balsi II, Biur Betur, Jamkuri and Kushdwip
gram panchayat
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s of
Patrasayer
Patrasayer (also spelled Patrasayar, Patrasair) is a village in the Patrasayer CD block in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Patrasayer is located at .
Area overview
The ...
community development block; and Laugram, Madanmohanpur gram panchayats of
Kotulpur
Kotulpur is a village in the Kotulpur CD block in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Etymology
Kotlu Khan of Gar Mandaran, then capital of the local kingdom, was killed in a war, in the Mughal ...
community development block.
Indas Assembly constituency is part of No. 37
Bishnupur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituency, formerly known as Vishnupur Lok Sabha constituency, is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Bishnupur
in West Bengal. While six of the assembly seats of No. 37 Bishn ...
.
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.
1977-2006
In the 2006 state assembly elections, Mahadeb Patra of CPI(M)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...
won the Indas assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Basudeb Digar of 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 cur ...
. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Nanda Dulal Majhi of CPI(M) defeated Purnima Lohar of Trinamool Congress in 2001, Naba Kumar Rajak of Congress
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in 1996 and Sanatan Santra of Congress in 1991. Badan Bora of CPI(M) defeated Piru Chandra Pandit of Congress in 1987, Gour Chandra Lohar of Congress in 1982 and Nabadurga of 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 ...
in 1977.
1967-1972
Sanatan Santra of Congress won in 1972. Badan Bora of CPI(M) won in 1971. Abani Kumar Saha of Bangla Congress
The Bangla Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress in 1966 and later co-governed with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) in two United F ...
won in 1969. P.C.Mal of Bangla Congress in 1967. Prior to that the Indas seat did not exist, but there was a seat at Patrasayer.
Patrasayer 1957-1962
Guru Pada Khan of Congress won in 1962. Gurupada Khan and Bhabataran Chakravarty, both of Congress, won the Patrasayer dual seat in 1957.[
]
References
{{West Bengal elections
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Bankura district