Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist theorist,communist activist,and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the member of Politburo of the party since its formation in 1964 till 2008. He was also the member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times. In his political career,spanning over seven decades,he was noted to have been the India's longest serving chief minister in an elected democracy,at the time of his resignation. He was proposed for the post of Prime Minister of India for four times.
Anil Biswas,often referred to as Keru,was an Indian communist politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and member of the party's politburo beginning in 1998 until his death in 2006.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is an Indian communist politician and a former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as the 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. In a political career over 5 decades,he became one of the senior leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) during his regime.
Sujan Chakraborty is an Indian Communist politician and member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the MLA of Jadavpur from 2016 to 2021. In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections,he defeated his nearest rival,Minister for Power in the Government of West Bengal,Manish Gupta of the Trinamool Congress. In 2021 he was defeated by Moloy Majumdar of AITC by a margin of 38869 votes. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha representing Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal state.
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties:the All India Trinamool Congress,the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the Bharatiya Janata Party,and the Indian National Congress. For many decades,the state underwent gruesome and terrible political violence. Since the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election,it has been governed by the Trinamool Congress party. Previously,it was ruled by Left Front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for over three decades.
Mohammed Amin was an Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the largest communist party in India. He was a Vice President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
Nandan is a government-sponsored film and cultural centre in Kolkata,India. The primary aim of the cultural hub is to encourage and facilitate cinematic awareness in society. It includes a few comparatively large screens housed in an impressively architectured building. The complex,besides being a modern cinema and cultural complex,is a popular destination for the young and the aged alike.
The history of West Bengal began in 1947,when the Hindu-dominated western part of British Bengal Province became the Indian state of West Bengal.
Ashok Bhattacharya is an Indian politician and the former mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation. He is a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is a prominent leader of CPI(M) in the northern region of West Bengal. He was the Minister of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs in the Government of West Bengal for three consecutive terms (1996–2011).
Dr. Asim Kumar Dasgupta is an Indian economist and politician. He served as minister of finance and excise in the Left Front ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal. He was the MLA of Khardaha constituency for twenty-four years until 13 May 2011,when he was defeated by FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra by a landslide 26,154 votes in the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal. He was one of the 26 ministers who lost his seat this historic defeat of Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front government.
Baranagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Jadavpur Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency in the Indian state of West Bengal which lies mostly in Kolkata district,while a fraction of it is in South 24 Parganas district.
Cossipur Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. It was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha.
Haider Aziz Safwi,popularly known as 'Safwi Sahab',was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer turned politician. He was the Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 2016 until his death in December 2018,and previously a cabinet minister in the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) government's first term in office. He held the portfolios of Minister for Cooperation and Inland Water Transport and Minister for Correctional Administration.
Sankar Gupta was an Indian Communist leader. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal from Jadavpur constituency in 1982.
1993 Kolkata Firing was an incident of firing by Calcutta Police in 1993 on Indian National Congress workers. The State Youth Congress led by Mamata Banerjee had organised a protest march to Writers Building on 21 July 1993 against the then Communist government of the state,demanding photo voter identity cards be made mandatory to ensure fair elections. The Police fired on the protesters killing 13 people and injuring many others.
The Left Front is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed in January 1977,the founding parties being the Communist Party of India (Marxist),All India Forward Bloc,the Revolutionary Socialist Party,the Marxist Forward Bloc,the Revolutionary Communist Party of India and the Biplabi Bangla Congress. Other parties joined in later years,most notably the Communist Party of India.
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.
