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Mandirbazar Assembly Constituency
Mandirbazar Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes. Overview As per the order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Mandirbazar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: * Mandirbazar community development block * Dakshin Lakshminarayanpur, Mathurapur Paschim, Mathurapur Purba and Uttar Lakshminarayanpur gram panchayats of Mathurapur I community development block Mandirbazar Assembly constituency is a part of No. 20 Mathurapur (Lok Sabha constituency). Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 Legislative Assembly Election 2016 Legislative Assembly Election 2011 Legislative Assembly Elections 1977-2006 In 2006, Dr. Tapati Saha of CPI(M) won the Mandirbazar Assembly constituency defeating Choudhury Mohan Jatua of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 99,723,000. West Bengal is the List of states and union territories of India by population, fourth-most populous and List of states and union territories of India by area, thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the List of metropolitan areas in India, third-largest metropolis, and List of cities in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1982. The Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front, which had won the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, emerged victoriously. The Indian National Congress emerged as the main opposition party in the state, as the Janata Party was disintegrating. Background On 6 January 1982 the West Bengal government requested that assembly elections be held on 15 March 1982, due to the approaching Monsoon season starting in April. However, in the end the election was held in May 1982, parallel to state assembly elections in Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. Parties and Alliances Left Front Ahead of the 1982 assembly elections, the Left Front had gained three new members; the Communist Party of India (CPI), the West Bengal Socialist Party (WBSP) and the Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra), Democratic Socialist Party (DSP). Some of the older, smaller Left Front constituents were unc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
None Of The Above
"None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting system. It is based on the principle that consent requires the ability to withhold consent in an election, just as they can by voting "No" on referendum, ballot questions. It must be contrasted with "abstention", in which a voter does not cast a ballot. Entities that include "None of the Above" on ballots as standard procedure include Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria („Не подкрепям никого“, "I don't support anyone"), Colombia (), France (''vote blanc'', "blank vote"), Greece (, blank), India ("None of the above"), Indonesia (, "empty box"), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Peru, Spain (, "blank vote"), Uruguay, and the U.S. state of Nevada (None of These Candidates). Russia had such an option ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the ''Vidhan Sabha'' in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. Like in the 2011 election, the poll was held in six phases, with the first phase divided into two days. The first phase was held in Naxalite-Maoist affected red corridor areas with two polling dates: 4 April and 11 April. The other phases were held on 17, 21, 25, 30 April and 5 May. The result of the election was declared on 19 May. In the previous election in 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress in a coalition with INC won a majority and ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front government. Background In the previous assembly election in 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, won a majority and ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front government. During 2011 election, the main theme of TM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha, all the 294 seats of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Assembly. In a very high voltage election, a voter turnout of over 84% was recorded, the highest ever in the history of Bengal so far. The Trinamool Congress led United Progressive Alliance won an absolute majority of seats in the state in a historic win marking the end of 34-year rule of Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front, the longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the world, a fact that was noted by international media. Notably, the incumbent List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost even his Jadavpur Assembly constituency, Jadavpur s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapati Saha
Tapati () is a goddess in Hinduism. She is known also as the goddess of the river Tapati (regionally rendered Tapti) and mother-goddess of the south (home of the sun) where she brings heat to the earth. According to Hindu texts, Tapati is the daughter of Surya, the sun god, and Chhaya, one of the wives of Surya. Etymology Tapati's name literally means the "warming", "the hot one", "burning one". This name is possibly connected to that of the queen of the Scythian gods, Tabiti, and it is possible that there was originally a dominant fire goddess in ancient Proto-Indo-Iranian religion. Legend Tapati is originally mentioned in the ''Mahabharata'' two dozen times, as the wife of Samvarana and the mother of Kuru (the founder of the Kuru dynasty and the Kuru Kingdom). The story of both characters has also been found in other Hindu texts such as the ''Bhagavata Purana''. According to these texts, Tapati's home is situated on the banks of river Tapati. The text extols the goddes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly . The election took place in five phases between 17 April and 8 May. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006, and, thanks to the Indian voting machines, electronic voting machines, all the results were out by the end of the day. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front won the election with an overwhelming majority. The previous government, formed by the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front and led by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, completed its full five-year term in office following its coming to power in 2001. The Left Front had been ruling the state of West Bengal for the last three decades, the world's longest-running democratically elected Communist government. Election schedule Seat Allotment Results The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front (West Bengal), Left Fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choudhury Mohan Jatua
Choudhury Mohan Jatua is an Indian politician. He was the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting from May 2009 to September 2012. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Mathurapur. Jatua is a post graduate in commerce from Calcutta University. A former additional deputy inspector general of police of West Bengal, he became a legislator, in 2001, by winning from the Mandirbazar constituency on a Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ... ticket. References Living people West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006 University of Calcutta alumni India MPs 2009–2014 Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal Lok Sabha members from West Bengal India MPs 2014–2019 1938 births People from South 24 Parganas district Ramakrish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2001 to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Seat Allotment Results Left Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 196 seats, a majority. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of All India Trinamool Congress, took charge as Leader of the Opposition. For the first time since 1971, no single party won a majority. This was also the first time since its landslide victory in 1977, that the ruling CPI(M) failed to win a majority on its own. As of 2022, this was also the last time that no single party won an outright majority. , - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1996. The election took place simultaneously with the 1996 Indian general election. This was the last election Jyoti Basu contested, as he retired from politics in 2000. Parties Left Front The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had fielded 70 new candidates, but many of them failed to get elected. The All India Forward Bloc had suffered a split before the election, with the emergence of the Forward Bloc (Socialist). The Left Front supported Janata Dal candidates in five constituencies. Indian National Congress Factionalism was rife within the state Congress unit. After being out of power in the state for about 20 years with no significant increase in either vote-share or number of seats in the last 15 years, most state Congress leaders had given up the hopes of defeating the Left Front & sought to re-evaluate their strategy. The elections took place alongside the general elections, in which there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election
Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1991. The election took place simultaneously with the 1991 Indian general election.''The Hindu''. The case against simultaneous polls' The term of the assembly elected in 1987 lasted until February 1992, but the Government of West Bengal, West Bengal Government asked the Election Commission of India to arrange the election at an earlier date. Parties contesting the election Left Front The campaign of the Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front focused on issues relating to secularism, communal harmony and the Mandal Commission. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the dominant partner in the Left Front, opted to deny reelection to 23 incumbent legislators, including one minister (Abdul Bari). In total CPI(M) fielded 204 candidates, All India Forward Bloc, AIFB 34, Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), RSP 23, Communist Party of India, CPI 12, West Bengal Socialist Party, WBSP 4, Marxist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
