West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
President	Subhankar Sarkar
Founded	19 June 1966(59 years ago)
Headquarters	Bidhan Bhavan,Sealdah, Entally, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700014
Newspaper	Andolon.in
Student wing	West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad
Ideology	Bengali nationalism ;
Political position	Centre-left
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Secular Democratic Alliance ; Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (National level)
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 16
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 42
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly	1 / 294
Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration	0 / 62
Election symbol
Website
	wbpcc.org
	Politics of India ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Last updated January 20, 2026

The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC), formerly known as the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee in Colonial India, is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of West Bengal. It is responsible for the organization and management of the party's activities and campaigns in the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections.

Structure and composition

S.no	Name	Designation
1.	Ghulam Ahmad Mir	AICC State Incharge AICC General Secretary
2.	Amba Prasad	AICC State Co Incharge AICC Secretary
3.	Shashi Panna	State Incharge West Bengal Adivasi Congress & National Coordinator All India Adivasi Congress, AICC
4.	Subhankar Sarkar	President West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
5.		State Incharge Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sangathan
6.	Eshan Ahmed Khan	State Incharge West Bengal Pradesh Youth Congress
7.	Subrata Dutta	President West Bengal Pradesh Mahila Congress
8.	Navaneeta Tirkey	Chairperson West Bengal Adivasi Congress
9.	Priyanka Choudhary	President West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad NSUI
10.	Rahul Pandey	President West Bengal Pradesh Congress Seva Dal

List of presidents

S.no	President	Term		Duration
1	Ananda Gopal Mukherjee	1981	1985	4 years, 0 days
2	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	1985	1989	4 years, 0 days
3	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	1989	1992	3 years, 0 days
4	Somendra Nath Mitra	1992	1998	6 years, 0 days
5	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	20 July 1998	22 August 2000	2 years, 33 days
6	Pranab Mukherjee	22 August 2000	17 February 2008	7 years, 179 days
(2)	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	17 February 2008	23 October 2008	249 days
7	Manas Bhunia	23 October 2008	17 January 2011	2 years, 86 days
8	Pradip Bhattacharya	17 January 2011	10 February 2014	3 years, 24 days
9	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	11 February 2014	22 September 2018	4 years, 223 days
(4)	Somendra Nath Mitra	22 September 2018	30 July 2020	1 year, 312 days
(9)	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	9 September 2020	21 September 2024	4 years, 12 days
10	Subhankar Sarkar	21 September 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 121 days

List of chief ministers of West Bengal from Indian National Congress

As of 2025, there have been five chief ministers of West Bengal from the Congress:

S.no	Name	Term
1.	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	15 August 1947	22 January 1948	250 days
1.	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	21 November 1967	19 February 1968	250 days
2.	Bidhan Chandra Roy	23 January 1948	1 July 1962	14 years, 159 days
3.	Prafulla Chandra Sen	9 July 1962	28 February 1967	4 years, 234 days
4.	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee	2 April 1971	28 June 1971	87 days
5.	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	20 March 1972	30 April 1977	5 years, 41 days

Political history

The Indian National Congress was popular in West Bengal from India's independence in 1947 till the late 1970s. The party was voted out of power in 1977 due to the Emergency. After that, they played the role of the opposition during the Left Front regime. The party suffered a big blow when Mamata Banerjee left the Congress and founded the breakaway party of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 1998. This led to exodus of the party members to the TMC and demise of the Congress Party in West Bengal. The party further declined due to the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal in the mid 2010s, relegating the party to a mere fourth-party status in the state. In the Legislative Assembly election in 2021, the party drew blank for the first time and failed to win a single seat in the assembly.

West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Year	Party leader	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1952	Bidhan Chandra Roy	236	150 / 294		Government
1957	Bidhan Chandra Roy	251	152 / 294	2	Government
1962	Prafulla Chandra Sen	252	157 / 294	5	Government
1967	Prafulla Chandra Sen	280	127 / 294	30	Opposition
1969	Prafulla Chandra Sen		55 / 294	72	Opposition
1971	Abdus Sattar		105 / 294	60	Opposition
1972	Siddhartha Shankar Ray		216 / 294	111	Government
1977	Purabi Mukhopadhyay	290	20 / 294	196	Opposition
1982	Ananda Gopal Mukherjee	250	49 / 294	29	Opposition
1987	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	294	40 / 294	9	Opposition
1991	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	284	43 / 294	3	Opposition
1996	Somendra Nath Mitra	288	82 / 294	39	Opposition
2001	Pranab Mukherjee	60	26 / 294	56	Opposition
2006	Pranab Mukherjee	262	21 / 294	5	Opposition
2011	Pradip Bhattacharya	66	42 / 294	21	Government
2016	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	92	44 / 294	2	Opposition
2021	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	92	0 / 294	44	Lost
2026	Subhankar Sarkar

Performance in General Elections

Lok Sabha Elections
Year	Lok Sabha	Seats contested	Seats won	(+/-) in seats	% of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote	Outcome
1951	1st	34	24 / 34	24	42.10%		32,05,162	Government
1957	2nd	35	23 / 36	1	48.20%	6.10	50,31,696	Government
1962	3rd	36	22 / 36	1	46.79%	1.41	45,53,677	Government
1967	4th	40	14 / 40	8	39.69%	7.10	51,05,170	Government
1971	5th	31	13 / 42	1	28.20%	11.49	36,87,665	Government
1977	6th	34	3 / 42	10	29.37%	1.17	43,12,418	Opposition
1980	7th	41	4 / 42	1	36.51%	7.14	75,00,578	Government
1984	8th	42	16 / 42	12	48.16%	11.65	1,22,27,863	Government
1989	9th	41	4 / 42	12	41.38%	6.78	1,31,00,945	Opposition
1991	10th	39	5 / 42	1	34.86%	6.52	1,08,34,675	Government
1996	11th	42	9 / 42	4	40.09%	5.23	1,47,11,538	Opposition
1998	12th	39	1 / 42	8	15.20%	24.89	55,51,456	Opposition
1999	13th	41	3 / 42	2	13.29%	1.91	46,88,932	Opposition
2004	14th	37	6 / 42	3	14.56%	1.27	53,85,754	Government
2009	15th	14	6 / 42		13.45%	1.11	57,49,051	Government
2014	16th	42	4 / 42	2	9.58%	3.87	49,46,911	Opposition
2019	17th	40	2 / 42	2	5.61%	3.97	32,10,491	Opposition
2024	18th	12	1 / 42	1	4.70%	0.91	28,27,055	Opposition

References

↑ Lowell Barrington (2009). Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices. Cengage Learning. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-618-49319-7.
↑ Meyer, Karl Ernest; Brysac, Shareen Blair (2012). Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds . PublicAffairs. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-61039-048-4 . Retrieved 7 April 2016.
↑ Soper, J. Christopher; Fetzer, Joel S. (2018). Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press. pp. 200–210. ISBN 978-1-107-18943-0.

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[Barrington2009-1] Lowell Barrington (2009). Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices. Cengage Learning. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-618-49319-7.

[2] Meyer, Karl Ernest; Brysac, Shareen Blair (2012). Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds . PublicAffairs. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-61039-048-4 . Retrieved 7 April 2016.

[J.Soper-3] Soper, J. Christopher; Fetzer, Joel S. (2018). Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press. pp. 200–210. ISBN 978-1-107-18943-0.

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