The Progressive Muslim League was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

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. The party emerged ahead of the

1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in February 1969 to elect 280 members to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. United Front formed the government with Ajoy Mukherjee as the Chief Minister. United Front won a landslide 214 seat ...

. The party won three seats in the

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; Nasiruddin Khan in

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, Ahammad Aktabuddin in

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and Harun-or-Rashid in

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. The party had contested 40 out of 280 seats in the election, obtaining 208,574 votes (1.56% of the state-wide vote). The party supported the

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government in the state, without joining it. In the

1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1971. The assembly election was held alongside the 1971 Indian general election. Parties and coalitions Ahead of the 1971 election the map of party coalitions was re ...

, the PML fielded two candidates, none of whom was elected. The party obtained 13,821 votes (0.11%).

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