Biplobi Bangla Congress
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Biplobi Bangla Congress (English: Revolutionary Bangla Congress; Template:Small BBC) is a political party in West Bengal, India.<ref name="Reynolds">Template:Cite journal</ref> The party emerged as a splinter group of the Bangla Congress party ahead of the 1971 West Bengal elections. It was founded by Sukumar Roy, a prominent member of CongressTemplate:Which?. BBC is now a part of the Left Front.
History
The formation of BBC is an important part of the history of Politics of West Bengal. The Congress partyTemplate:Which? held stateTemplate:Which? power for the first two decades after partition, before trying out another groupingTemplate:Clarify in 1967. At that time, the first United Front government came to power with Ajoy Mukherjee of the Bangla Congress (a Congress splinter group) as chief minister, Jyoti Basu as deputy chief minister and ministry of land and land revenue (reforms) as Hare Krishna Konar.
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,Template:Citation needed when even Jyoti Basu 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 West Bengal for 34 years.Template:Until when
Symbols
Template:Contradictory 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 Communist Party of India (Marxist) symbol). Laya got 62,079 votes (44.98%), but lost the seat to Congress candidate Dr. Manas Bhunia.Template:Citation needed
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 Kolkata Municipal Corporation at different times.