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Samar Hazra is an Indian politician, belonging to the Marxist Forward Bloc. [1] [2] He won in 2016 from the Jamalpur constituency for West Bengal Legislative Assembly as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate. [3] [4]

Hazra won the Jamalpur seat in the 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 assembly elections. [5] He lost the seat in the 2011 elections, but regained it in the 2016 election. [3] [6] Hazra's house was attacked in post-poll violence after the 2014 Lok Sabha election. [7]

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