Protiva Mukherjee (1934–2013) was an Indian politician, belonging to the
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre", is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibda ...
.
Biography
Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in
Birbhum District
Birbhum district () is an District#India, administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five Divisions of West Bengal, administrative divisions of West Bengal. The distr ...
.
After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.
She contested the Suri constituency seat in the
1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections was held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1962.
Parties
Ahead of the polls, the Communist Party of India, the All India Forward Bloc, the Marxist Forward Bloc, the Revolutionary Communist Party of India, the B ...
, finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).
She again contested the
Suri seat in the
1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967 was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 1967 to elect 280 members to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. United Front led by Ajoy Mukherjee won majority of seats in the election, and formed ...
, finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).
As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in
Suri.
She was elected to the
West Bengal Legislative Assembly
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian states and territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata, the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative as ...
from the
Suri constituency seat in the 1969 and 1971 elections.
In the
1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in February 1969 to elect 280 members to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. United Front formed the government with Ajoy Mukherjee as the Chief Minister. United Front won a landslide 214 seats ...
she got 27,517 votes (57.40%).
She held the post of Minister of State for Roads and Road Development in the second
United Front
A united front is an alliance of groups against their common enemies, figuratively evoking unification of previously separate geographic fronts and/or unification of previously separate armies into a front. The name often refers to a political a ...
government of
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 fourt ...
, formed in 1969.
She was the only female minister in the West Bengal government at the time. In the
1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1971. The assembly election was held alongside the 1971 Indian general election.
Parties and coalitions
Ahead of the 1971 election the map of party coalitions was r ...
she got 12,060 votes (34.54% of the votes in Suri), defeating the candidates 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 nati ...
,
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 ...
and
Congress(I)
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.
In the violent environment of the area during the polls, Mukherjee was the sole prominent local political leader that had not sought refugee elsewhere.
Mukherjee lost the Suri seat in the
1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal on March 11, 1972.
Background
The election was the 4th assembly election in West Bengal within six years. President's Rule had been introduced soon after the 1971 West ...
, being defeated by the Congress(I) candidate in a straight contest. She got 20,894 votes (44.01%).
She again contested the Suri seat in the
1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections was held in the Indian state of West Bengal on 14 June 1977. The polls took place after the ousting of Indira Gandhi's government at the Centre. The Left Front won a landslide victory. The 1977 election marked th ...
, finishing in third place behind the Congress(I) and CPI(M) candidates.
She got 9,880 votes (19.50%).
[ She again finished in third place in Suri in the ]1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1982. The Left Front, which had won the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, emerged victoriously. The Indian National Congress emerged as the main oppo ...
, winning 4,797 votes (5.88%).
Mukherjee died in 2013.
References
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) politicians
West Bengal MLAs 1969–1971
State cabinet ministers of West Bengal
Trade unionists from West Bengal
People from Birbhum district
1934 births
2013 deaths
West Bengal MLAs 1971–1972