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Behala Paschim Assembly Constituency
Behala Paschim Assembly constituency (earlier known as Behala West Assembly constituency) is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Behala Paschim Assembly constituency is composed of the following: * Ward Nos. 118, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 132 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Behala Paschim Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency). Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 In the 2021 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress, defeated his nearest rival, Srabanti Chatterjee of BJP. 2016 In the 2016 elections, Partha Chatterjee of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Kaustav Chatterjee of CPI(M). .# Swing calculated on LF+Congress vote percentages taken together in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partha Chatterjee (politician)
Partha Chatterjee (born 6 October 1952) is an Indian politician. He earlier served as the Minister of Commerce and Industries and formerly served as the Education Minister of Government of West Bengal. He represented the Trinamool Congress. He also held the political office of Secretary General of the TMC. In 2022, he was suspended indefinitely from the party following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate. Early life Chatterjee was born in Calcutta. He attended Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur though some former students of the Mission claimed that he was only there for a year, after which he was given a transfer certificate. He studied economics from Asutosh College and completed his MBA from IISWBM. Political career Chatterjee worked as an HR professional with Andrew Yule. He was elected as an MLA from Behala Paschim in 2001, and subsequently re-elected from the same constituency in 2006. In 2011 he won by a margin of 59,021 votes. He was Leader of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of India
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. The CPI considers the Foundation of the Communist Party of India, December 26, 1925 Cawnpore (Kanpur) conference as its foundation date. Between 1946 and 1951, the CPI led militant struggles such as the Telangana Rebellion, peasant revolt in Telangana, organising guerrilla warfare against feudal lords. The CPI was the main opposition party in India during the 1950s to 1960s. In 1964, 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, a split in the CPI led to the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which eventually emerged as the larger of the two parties. CPI supported the rule of Indira Gandhi, but later changed course and embraced left unity. CPI was part of the ruling United Front (India, 1996), United Front government from 1996 to 1998 and had two ministers under Deve Gowda ministry, Devegowda and Gujral ministry, Gujral Ministry. Currently, the CPI has two members in Lok Sabha and two members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2001 to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Seat Allotment Results Left Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 196 seats, a majority. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of All India Trinamool Congress, took charge as Leader of the Opposition. For the first time since 1971, no single party won a majority. This was also the first time since its landslide victory in 1977, that the ruling CPI(M) failed to win a majority on its own. As of 2022, this was also the last time that no single party won an outright majority. , - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1996. The election took place simultaneously with the 1996 Indian general election. This was the last election Jyoti Basu contested, as he retired from politics in 2000. Parties Left Front The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had fielded 70 new candidates, but many of them failed to get elected. The All India Forward Bloc had suffered a split before the election, with the emergence of the Forward Bloc (Socialist). The Left Front supported Janata Dal candidates in five constituencies. Indian National Congress Factionalism was rife within the state Congress unit. After being out of power in the state for about 20 years with no significant increase in either vote-share or number of seats in the last 15 years, most state Congress leaders had given up the hopes of defeating the Left Front & sought to re-evaluate their strategy. The elections took place alongside the general elections, in which there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1991. The election took place simultaneously with the 1991 Indian general election.''The Hindu''. The case against simultaneous polls' The term of the assembly elected in 1987 lasted until February 1992, but the Government of West Bengal, West Bengal Government asked the Election Commission of India to arrange the election at an earlier date. Parties contesting the election Left Front The campaign of the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front focused on issues relating to secularism, communal harmony and the Mandal Commission. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the dominant partner in the Left Front, opted to deny reelection to 23 incumbent legislators, including one minister (Abdul Bari). In total CPI(M) fielded 204 candidates, All India Forward Bloc, AIFB 34, Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), RSP 23, Communist Party of India, CPI 12, West Bengal Socialist Party, WBSP 4, Marxist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1987. The election was mainly a clash between the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front led by Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and the Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress(I) led by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The former held the state government and the latter the national government. The election was won by the Left Front, for the third time in a row. Contestants Left Front The governing Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front denied tickets to 62 sitting legislators. In many cases CPI(M), the dominant force in the Left Front, was seeking to rejuvenate the legislature and fielded 35 student leaders as new candidates. The star campaigner of the Left Front was Chief Minister Jyoti Basu of CPI(M), who had pledged to visit all constituencies where CPI(M) had fielded candidates. During the campaign Basu claimed that the Delhi government discriminated against West Bengal in allocation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1982. The Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front, which had won the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, emerged victoriously. The Indian National Congress emerged as the main opposition party in the state, as the Janata Party was disintegrating. Background On 6 January 1982 the West Bengal government requested that assembly elections be held on 15 March 1982, due to the approaching Monsoon season starting in April. However, in the end the election was held in May 1982, parallel to state assembly elections in Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Parties and Alliances Left Front Ahead of the 1982 assembly elections, the Left Front had gained three new members; the Communist Party of India (CPI), the West Bengal Socialist Party (WBSP) and the Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra), Democratic Socialist Party (DSP). Some of the older, smaller Left Front constituents were unc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the beginning of the 34-year Left Front rule in West Bengal, with Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Jyoti Basu leading the first Left Front cabinet. The election finally put to rest, the decade-long political instability that had begun since 1967. Background After the Janata Party won the national parliamentary election in March 1977 the new government in Delhi opted to dissolve the assemblies in nine states where the Indian National Congress (R) had lost the parliamentary polls and call for fresh elections. West Bengal was one of these states. The Congress(R) opposed the dissolution of the assemblies, the incumbent West Bengal Congress(R) government petitioned the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court rejected the petition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biswanath Chakraborty
Biswanath Chakraborty (born 1932) was an Indian politician from Behala. Chakraborty was born on October 31, 1932 in Lodna (Bihar). He was the son of Dhananjay Chakraborty. Biswanath Chakraborty went to school at the Barisha High School in Behala. He would continue his studies in Calcutta at the Bangabasi College, the Ashutosh College and the Calcutta University - obtaining a Master of Arts degree. Chakraborty married Dipti, the couple had one daughter and two sons. Chakraborty worked as a lecturer, and was a member of the General Council of the West Bengal College and University Teachers Association. He served as a Commissioner of the South Suburban Municipality (Behala). He served as president and secretary of various schools in Behala.Who's who 1972: General Election, March 1972'. West Bengal Legislative Assembly Secretariat, 1974. p. 13 The Communist Party of India fielded Chakraborty as its candidate for the Behala West seat in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. In the previous assembly election held last year, Ajoy Mukherjee of Bangla Congress became the chief minister with support of the INC(R) & the United Left Democratic Front (an alliance of CPI, AIFB, SSP rebels, PSP, BPI - Barada Mukutmoni faction, RCPI - Anadi Das faction & AIGL). President's Rule had been introduced on 29 June 1971 due to fallout of the Congress(R) (with which the Bangla Congress had merged) with the ULDF. Contenders There were two main fronts in the election; the alliance between the Congress(R) and CPI and the alliance led by CPI(M). The Congress(R)-CPI alliance was known as the Progressive Democratic Alliance. The PDA had a seven-point programme. At the time of the election Indira Gandhi's popularity peaked, with the victory in the Bangladesh Liberation War and elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 redrawn. The United Front had split into two after the resignation of its Chief Minister. The United Left Front, also known as the Six-Party Coalition, was led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and included the Revolutionary Communist Party of India ( Sudhindranath Kumar group), the Biplobi Bangla Congress, the Bolshevik Party of India (Nepal Bhattacharya group), the Workers Party of India and the Marxist Forward Bloc. The United Left Democratic Front, also known as the Eight-Party Coalition, was led by the Communist Party of India and included the All India Forward Bloc, the Socialist Unity Centre of India, the All India Gorkha League, the Bolshevik Party of India ( Barada Mukutmoni group), the RCPI (Anadi Das group), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and 49.7% of the votes. Background In the previous assembly election, the Indian National Congress was defeated due to unpopularity of state PCC chief Bijoy Singh Nahar's autocratic style of functioning & chief minister Prafulla Chandra Sen's unpopular decision of implementing food rationing in the state to handle the food crisis caused by famine in the state. The first non-Congress government was formed on 1 March 1967 with Ajoy Mukherjee of Bangla Congress from the United Front (also consisting of CPI, AIFB & BPI) as the chief-minister & Jyoti Basu of CPI(M) from the United Left Front (also consisting of RSP, SUCI(C), SSP, MFB, WPI & RCPI) as the deputy chief minister. However, the coalition government soon fell apart d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
