West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
President	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Founded	19 June 1966(57 years ago)
Headquarters	Chowdhury house, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal
Newspaper	Andolon.in
Student wing	West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad
Ideology	Big tent ; Secularism ; Social liberalism ; Democratic socialism ; Social democracy ; Civic nationalism ;
Political position	Centre
Alliance	Secular Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	2 / 42
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 16
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly	0 / 294
Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration	01 / 62
Election symbol
Website
	wbpcc.org
	Politics of India ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Last updated May 01, 2024

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. The current president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee is Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is also a Member of Parliament from Berhampore in West Bengal.

Structure & composition

S.no	Name	Designation
1.	Ghulam Ahmad Mir	AICC Incharge
2.	Meer Akhtar Hussain	RGPRS Incharge
3.	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	President West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
4.	Azahar Mollick	President West Bengal Pradesh Youth Congress
5.	Subrata Dutta	President West Bengal Pradesh Mahila Congress
6.	Sourav Prosad	President West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad NSUI
7.	Rahul Pandey	President West Bengal Pradesh Congress Seva Dal

List of Presidents

S.no	President	Term
1.	Ananda Gopal Mukherjee	1981	1985
2.	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	1985	1989
3.	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	1989	1992
4.	Somendra Nath Mitra	1992	1998
5.	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	20 July 1998	22 August 2000
6.	Pranab Mukherjee	22 August 2000	17 February 2008
(2).	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	17 February 2008	23 October 2008
7.	Manas Bhunia	23 October 2008	17 January 2011
8.	Pradip Bhattacharya	17 January 2011	10 February 2014
9.	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	11 February 2014	22 September 2018
(4).	Somendra Nath Mitra	22 September 2018	30 July 2020
(9).	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	9 September 2020	Incumbent

List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal from Indian National Congress

There were four Chief Ministers of West Bengal from the Congress party:

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.	Siddhartha Shankar Ray	20 March 1972	30 April 1977	5 years, 41 days

Political history

The Congress Party was popular in West Bengal from the beginning 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 BJP 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.

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[Barrington2009-1] 1 2 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] 1 2 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.

[NSGehlot1991-4] N. S. Gehlot (1991). The Congress Party in India: Policies, Culture, Performance. Deep & Deep Publications. pp. 150–200. ISBN 978-81-7100-306-8.

[5] DeSouza, Peter Ronald (2006). India's Political Parties Readings in Indian Government and Politics series. SAGE Publishing. p. 420. ISBN 978-9-352-80534-1.

[6] Rosow, Stephen J.; George, Jim (2014). Globalization and Democracy. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 91–96. ISBN 978-1-442-21810-9.

[Agarwal1989-7] Agrawal, S. P.; Aggarwal, J. C., eds. (1989). Nehru on Social Issues. New Delhi: Concept Publishing. ISBN 978-817022207-1.

[8] "India Election 2019: A Simple Guide to the World's Largest Vote". The New York Times. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2023. The Indian National Congress led India for most of the nation's post-independence history. This secular, center-left party's leader is Rahul Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather were prime ministers.

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