Belgachia East | |
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Former constituency No. 139 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Kolkata |
Lok Sabha constituency | Dum Dum |
Established | 1951 |
Abolished | 2011 |
Reservation | None |
Belgachia East Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Belgachia East Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011. [1]
It was part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). [2]
Year | Member | Party | |
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1951 | Ganesh Ghosh | Communist Party of India | |
1957 | |||
1962 | |||
1967 | Lakshmi Charan Sen | Communist Party of India | |
1969 | |||
1971 | |||
1972 | Ganapati Sur | Indian National Congress | |
1977 | Subhas Chakraborty | Communist Party of India | |
1982 | |||
1987 | |||
1991 | |||
1996 | |||
2001 | |||
2006 | |||
2009^ | Sujit Bose | All India Trinamool Congress |
In the by-election held in 2009 as a result of the death of the sitting MLA Subhas Chakraborty, Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress won the 139 Belgachia East seat defeating Ramala Chakrabarty of CPI(M). [3] [4] Subhas Chakrabarty of CPI(M) won the Belgachia East seat seven times in a row from 1977 to 2006. In 2006 [5] and 2001, [6] he defeated Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress. In 1996 [7] he defeated Arunava Ghosh of Congress. In 1991 [8] and 1987, [9] he defeated Kumares Basu of Congress. In 1982 [10] he defeated Shyamal Bhattacharjee of Congress. In 1977, he defeated Samir Chatterjee of Janata Party. [11] [12]
During the period there was only one seat for Belgachia. Ganapati Sur of Congress defeated Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) in 1972. [13] Lakshmi Charan Sen of CPI(M) defeated Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1971, [14] Suchit Kumar Sur of Congress in 1969 [15] and Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1967. [16] Ganesh Ghosh of CPI won the seat defeating Ganapati Sur of Congress in 1962, [17] Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in 1957 [18] and in independent India's first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress. [19]