West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
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{{Infobox Indian political party |party_name = West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee |native_name = পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি |
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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 | 
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20 July 1998 | 22 August 2000 | |
| 6. | Pranab Mukherjee | File:Pranab Mukherjee Portrait (cropped | 22 September 2018 | 30 July 2020 | |
| (9). | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | .png)
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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 | 
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15 August 1947 | 22 January 1948 | 250 days |
| 21 November 1967 | 19 February 1968 | ||||
| 2. | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 
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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]
- Indian National Congress
- All India Congress Committee
- Congress Working Committee
- All India Mahila Congress
- Indian Youth Congress
- National Students Union of India
