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Barada Mukutmoni was an Indian politician, belonging to the Bolshevik Party of India. He briefly served as Minister for Tourism in the state of West Bengal.

Bolshevik Party of India

The Bolshevik Party of India is a communist political party in India. The party was founded in 1939. The party had a certain role in the trade union movement in West Bengal and was briefly represented in the state government in 1969. In later years the party has played a negligible role in Indian politics.

West Bengal State in Eastern India

West Bengal is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India, and center of the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.

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BPI leader in Bengal

In early 1944 the BPI politburo dissolved the Bengal Committee of the party and formed a 4-member secretariat for the province with Mukutmoni as one of its members. [1]

Politburo executive committee for a number of political parties

A politburo or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties.

Bengal Region in Asia

Bengal is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Geographically, it is made up by the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta system, the largest such formation in the world; along with mountains in its north bordering the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan and east bordering Burma.

During the 1956 reorganisation of states in India, Mukutmoni took part in the protests against the proposed merger of Bihar and West Bengal into "Purba Pradesh". [2] He was a member of a January 1956 committee of left parties in West Bengal that reviewed that reorganisation proposal (other members included Jyoti Basu and Nihar Mukherjee). [2] As of 1959 he served as the President of the Radha Chemicals Workers Union. [3]

Jyoti Basu Indian politician

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Nihar Mukherjee Indian politician

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Electoral politics

Mukutmoni contested the Titagarh constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1957. [4] He finished in fourth place with 1,923 votes (6.72)%. [4] In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1962 he contested the Deganga seat and finished in second place with 11,449 votes (32.83%). [5] In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967 he contested the Naihati seat and finished in third place with 7443 votes (13.10%). [6]

Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India

Titagarh was an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Tourism Minister and BPI split

Mukutmoni was named Minister of Tourism in the second United Front government of West Bengal in March 1969. [7] [8]

The United Front was a political coalition in West Bengal, India, formed shortly after the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. It was conceived on 25 February 1967, through the joining together of the United Left Front and the People's United Left Front, along with other parties. Soon after its formation, a massive rally was held in Calcutta, at which an 18-point programme of the Front was presented. Ajoy Mukherjee, leader of the Bangla Congress, was the head of the United Front.

A split occurred in BPI in the wake of Mukutmoni joining the state government. [8] To become a minister Mukutmoni had to resign from his post as secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of BPI, which he did. [8] But when the State Committee met on 14 March 1969 Mukutmoni's candidate for new secretary was defeated in a vote. [8] Mukutmoni refused to hand over the secretary post to the secretary-elect Sita Seth and in July 1969 the Central Committee of BPI declared expelled Mukutmoni and his followers from the party. [8] [9] In response Mukutmoni formed a Central Committee of his own, with three expelled West Bengal State Committee members. [8] The two factions clashed over control of the party headquarters on Central Avenue. [9]

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Chittaranjan Avenue road in Kolkata

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A June 1969 edition of Himmat reported that Mukutmoni was about to lose his ministerial post. [10] As the West Bengal Legislative Council was abolished in August 1969 (a body to which Mukutmoni, in theory, had been able to get elected to), Mukutmoni was forced to resign from his ministerial post six months after the formation of the second United Front government. [11]

1971 elections

Ahead of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1971 the BPI (Barada Mukutmoni group) joined the CPI-led United Left Democratic Front. [12] [13] Mukutmoni stood as a candidate on a CPI ticket in Chakdaha, finishing in fourth place with 4,479 votes (7.78%). [14]

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  2. 1 2 Jyoti Basu (1999). Memoirs, a political autobiography. National Book Agency. pp. 115–116, 174. ISBN   978-81-7626-054-1.
  3. ↑ West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour (January 1959). Labour Gazette. p. 262.
  4. 1 2 Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL
  5. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL
  6. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL
  7. ↑ Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952–1991. The Committee. p. 379.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 S. N. Sadasivan (1977). Party and democracy in India. Tata McGraw-Hill. pp. 91–92.
  9. 1 2 Institute of Political and Social Studies (1969). Institute of Political and Social Studies Bulletin. pp. 11, 26.
  10. ↑ Himmat. 5. 1969. p. 17.
  11. ↑ M. V. S. Koteswara Rao (2003). Communist parties and United Front experience in Kerala and West Bengal. Prajasakti Book House. p. 266. ISBN   978-81-86317-37-2.
  12. ↑ Political Science Review. 18–19. Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan. 1979. p. 31.
  13. ↑ Sudhir Ray (1 November 2007). Marxist parties of West Bengal in opposition and in government, 1947–2001. Progressive Publishers. p. 160. ISBN   978-81-8064-135-0.
  14. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India . Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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