Biplobi Bangla Congress ( English: Revolutionary

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Congress; BBC) is a

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. The party emerged as a splinter group of the

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party ahead of the 1971 West Bengal elections. It was founded by Sukumar Roy, a prominent member of Congress. BBC is now the part of the Left Front.

History

The formation of BBC is an important part of the history of

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. The Congress party held state power for the first two decades after partition, before trying out another grouping in 1967. At that time, the first United Front government came to power with

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of the

(a Congress splinter group) as chief minister,

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as deputy chief minister and ministry of land and land revenue (reforms) as

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. Thereafter followed four years of political instability due to the Naxalite rebellion and police counter-action, the Congress muscled its way back to power in the 1972 elections, when even

lost his assembly seat to a nonentity by 40,000 votes. In 1977, the voters brought the Biplobi Bangla Congress and Left Front merged to power, with latter retaining the title and from since then they remained firm as the ruling party of

for 34 years.

Symbols

The flag adopted by the party is red & white (3:1 ratio) with Hammer & Plough symbol at the center.

Contested elections

BBC candidate Tushar Kanti Laya contested the Sabang seat in West Midnapore for 2001 assembly elections of the state and won it. In the 2006 assembly elections of West Bengal, BBC again contested the Sabong seat with Tushar Kanti Laya as its candidate (on a

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symbol). Laya got 62,079 votes (44.98%), but lost the seat to

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candidate Dr.

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Prominent members

Some prominent leaders of Biplobi Bangla Congress are Nirmalendu Bhattacharya, Gouranga Samanta, Ashis Chowdhury, Sunil Chowdhury, Deepak Senroy (Subrata Roy). Gouranga Samanta was elected as MLA two times from Sabang. Other MLAs were Dr. Makhan Lal Bangal, Tushar Laya. Dr. Umesh Chaudhary & Reeta Chowdhury were Councillor in

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at different times.

References

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