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 declined the post of Prime Minister after the 1996 Indian general election after the CPM refused to let him head a multi-party coalition as would not be able to implement Marxist programs and relinquished the prime ministership to Deve Gowda.
The Bangla Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress in 1966 and later co-governed with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in two United Front governments,the first lasting from 15 March 1967 to 2 November 1967,the second from 25 February 1969 to 19 March 1970.
Bidhan Chandra Roy was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of several institutions and cities like Salt Lake,Kalyani,and Durgapur.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011,the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister,Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress,and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi.
Siddhartha Shankar Ray was an Indian lawyer,diplomat and Indian National Congress politician from West Bengal. In his political career he held a number of offices,including Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77),Union Minister of Education (1971–72),Governor of Punjab (1986–89) and Indian Ambassador to the United States (1992–96). He was,at one point,the main troubleshooter for the Congress Party.
Sen is a native Bengali Hindu surname derived from "Sena",the Sanskrit word for "army".
Prafulla Chandra Chaki was an Indian revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries who carried out assassination attempt against British colonial official in an attempt to secure Indian independence.
Nalini Ranjan Sarker was an Indian Industrialist and Statesman,who greatly involved in the economic regeneration of West Bengal. Sarker was Finance Minister of West Bengal in 1948. The Sarker Committee Report was instrumental in the subsequent establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by the Government of India.
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian independence activist and politician who served three short terms as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He hailed from Tamluk,Purba Medinipur district,West Bengal.
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.
Sushil Kumar Dhara was a revolutionary in British India and a political leader after Indian Independence in 1947.
Arambagh is an assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Madan Mitra is an Indian politician,actor from West Bengal. Madan Mitra started his career with party Indian National Congress. He held many positions of Indian Youth Congress,the party's youth wing. In 1998,he joined Trinamool Congress party,founded by his colleague Mamata Banerjee,and his movie debut was in the 2023 Bengali film Oh! Lovely. In 2011,he was elected to the legislative assembly and became a state minister. He was arrested for the Sarada Chit Fund conspiracy case and got bail after 22 months.
Jatindra Mohan Sengupta was an Indian revolutionary against the British rule. He was arrested several times by the British police. In 1933,he died in a prison located in Ranchi,India.
Subodh Chandra Sengupta was an Indian scholar,academic and critic of English literature,known for his scholarship on Shakespearean works. His books on William Shakespeare,which included Aspects of Shakespearian Tragedy,Shakespearian Comedy and Shakespeare's Historical Plays are critically acclaimed for scholarship and academic rigor. He was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Presidency College,Calcutta,and after retirement from Presidency College,became Professor of English Language and Literature at Jadavpur University,Calcutta,as well as a professor of English literature at Ramakrishna Mission Residential College,Narendrapur,an autonomous college in Greater Calcutta under the University of Calcutta. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 1983,for his contributions to literature and education.
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.
Deben Sen was an Indian trade union activist and politician.
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.
Jagannath Majumdar (1911–1999) was a Bengali revolutionary,freedom fighter in British India and a political leader after Indian Independence from Nadia,West Bengal. He was a part of the Indian National Congress and was a 3 term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Charu Chandra Bhandari was a staunch independence activist,Gandhian and Sarvodaya leader. He was the chief propagator of the Sarvodaya movement in Bengal as a close associate of Acharya Vinoba Bhave and took an active part in the Bhoodan movement.
