Purbasthali Assembly constituency was an

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constituency in what is now

Purba Bardhaman district Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...

in the

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n state of

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Election results

1977 - 2006

Subrata Bhowal of

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(CPI (M)) won the Purbasthali Assembly seat in

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and 2001 defeating his nearest rival Ansar Mondal of

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. In 1996, Himangshu Dutta of CPI (M) defeated Ansar Mondal of

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. In 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977,

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of CPI (M) won the seat defeating Swapan Bhattacharya of

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(BJP), Mukul Bhattacharya of Congress, Manabendra Kumar Roy of Congress and Rama Devi of

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, in the respective years.

1951-1972

In 1972, Nurunessa Sattar of Congress won the Purbasthali assembly seat. Molla Humayun Kabir won the seat in 1971 and 1969. Lalit Mohan Hazra of CPI (M) won it in 1967. Bimalananda Tarkatirtha of Congress won the seat in

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and

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Impact of delimitation

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Purbasthali Assembly constituency and

Nadanghat Assembly constituency Nadanghat Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in what is now Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Nadanghat Assembly constituency ceased to exist from ...

ceased to exist and in its place

Purbasthali Purbasthali is a village with a police station and a rail station in Purbasthali II CD block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district. It is located 120 km north from Kolkata. Also known as Chupi Char, it lies on the banks of a ...

now has two assembly constituencies. 268 Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Nandai, Kankuria, Begpur, Atghoria Simlan, Dhatrigram and Sultanpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block and Nasratpur, Samudragarh, Bagpur, Sreerampur and Nadanghat gram panchayats of Purbasthali I community development block. 269

Purbasthali Uttar Assembly constituency Purbasthali Uttar Assembly constituency is an Vidhan Sabha, assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, Purbasthal ...

covers Purbasthali II community development block, Jahannagar and Dogachia gram panchayats of Purbasthali I CD Block, and Bamunpara, Mamudpur II and Putsuri gram panchayats of

Manteswar Monteswar is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Administrative set up When subdivisions were first formed by the British ...

CD Block. Purbasthali assembly segment was earlier part of

Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency) Katwa Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Katwa in West Bengal, which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008. Overview As pe ...

. As per orders of Delimitation Commission both Purbasthali Dakshin and Purbasthali Uttar are part of Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).

References

{{Coord, 23.4679110, N, 88.3294300, E, display=title, format=dms} Former assembly constituencies of West Bengal Politics of Purba Bardhaman district