West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
President	Vacant
Chairman	TBA
Founded	19 June 1966 (58 years ago)
Headquarters	Sealdah, Entally, Calcutta, West Bengal, 700014
Newspaper	Andolon.in
Student wing	West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad
Ideology	Majority:; Big tent; Secularism; Civic nationalism; Factions:; Liberalism; Social liberalism; Conservative liberalism; Social democracy; Democratic liberalism; Economic liberalism;
Alliance	Secular Democratic Alliance; Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (National level)
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 42
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 16
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly	0 / 294
Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration	0 / 62
Election symbol
Website
	wbpcc.org
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

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 most recent president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee was Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who held that position from 2020 to 2024 and previously from 2014 to 2018.

Structure & composition

S.no	Name	Designation
1.	Ghulam Ahmad Mir	AICC Incharge
2.	Meer Akhtar Hussain	RGPRS Incharge
3.	Vacant	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.	Priyanka Choudhary	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	21 June 2024
10	TBD

List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal from Indian National Congress

There were five 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.	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 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 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
1982	Ananda Gopal Mukherjee	250	49 / 294		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	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.

External links

Official website

[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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