West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
PresidentAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Founded19 June 1966 (57 years ago) (1966-06-19)
HeadquartersChowdhury house, Berhampore, Murshidabad, West Bengal
NewspaperAndolon.in
Student wingWest Bengal State Chhatra Parishad
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[11]
AllianceSecular 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

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[edit]

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[edit]

S.no President Portrait 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[edit]

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

S.no Name Portrait Term
1. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh 15 August 1947 22 January 1948 250 days
21 November 1967 19 February 1968
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[edit]

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.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  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.
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  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.
  9. ^ S. Harikrishnan, ed. (2022). Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000786583. Electorally, both the left-leaning Communist parties (and allies) and the centre-left Indian National Congress (and allies) have been active in Kerala.
  10. ^ Shekh Moinuddin, ed. (2021). Digital Shutdowns and Social Media: Spatiality, Political Economy and Internet Shutdowns in India. Springer Nature. p. 99. ISBN 9783030678883. Meanwhile, in the last four years, there has been a shift in social content and strategy of the BJP and the major opposition party, centre-left Indian National Congress (INC).
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External links[edit]

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