Progressive Muslim League (West Bengal)

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The Progressive Muslim League was a political party in West Bengal, India. [1] [2] The party emerged ahead of the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. [3] The party won three seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly; Nasiruddin Khan in Naoda, Ahammad Aktabuddin in Hariharpara and Harun-or-Rashid in Deganga. [4] All in all the party had contested 40 out of 280 seats in the election, obtaining 208,574 votes (1.56% of the state-wide vote). [4] The party supported the United Front government in the state, without joining it. [5]

PML fielded two candidates in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, out of whom none was elected. [6] The party obtained 13,821 votes (0.11%). [6]

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  1. ↑ Thought. Vol. 22. Siddhartha Publications. 1970. p. 62.
  2. ↑ S. Nihal Singh (1 March 1993). The rocky road of Indian democracy: Nehru to Narasimha Rao. Sterling Publishers. p. 49. ISBN   978-81-207-1526-4.
  3. ↑ Profulla Roychoudhury (1977). West Bengal--a Decade, 1965-1975. Boipatra. p. 130.
  4. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Profulla Roychoudhury (1985). Left Experiment in West Bengal . Patriot Publishers. p.  92.
  6. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
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