Bara Bazar | |
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Former constituency No. 144 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | West Bengal |
District | Kolkata |
LS constituency | Calcutta North West |
Established | 1952 |
Abolished | 2011 |
Reservation | None |
Bara Bazar Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Bara Bazar Assembly constituency ceases to exist from 2011.[1]
It was part of Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]
Election Year |
Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1951 | Barabazar | Ishwar Das Jalan | Indian National Congress[3] |
1957 | Ishwar Das Jalan | Indian National Congress[4] | |
1962 | Ishwar Das Jalan | Indian National Congress[5] | |
1967 | Ishwar Das Jalan | Indian National Congress[6] | |
1969 | Ram Krishna Saraogi | Indian National Congress[7] | |
1971 | Ram Krishna Saraogi | Indian National Congress[8] | |
1972 | Ram Krishna Saraogi | Indian National Congress[9] | |
1977 | Rabi Shankar Pandey | Janata Party[10] | |
1982 | Rajesh Khaitan | Indian National Congress[11] | |
1987 | Rajesh Khaitan | Indian National Congress[12] | |
1991 | Rajesh Khaitan | Indian National Congress[13] | |
1996 | Rajesh Khaitan | Indian National Congress[14] | |
2001 | Tapas Roy | All India Trinamool Congress[15] | |
2006 | Mohammad Sohrab | Rashtriya Janata Dal[16] |
In the 2006 election, Mohammed Sohrab of Rashtriya Janata Dal defeated his nearest rival Amitabha Chakraborti of Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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RJD | Mohammed Sohrab | 9,527 | 34.3 | ||
INC | Amitabha Chakraborti | 8,760 | 31.6 | ||
AITC | Tapas Roy | 8,405 | 30.3 | ||
Independent | Md. Asiruddin | 241 | 0.9 | ||
Independent | Shyamal Chandra Karmakar | 193 | 0.7 | ||
BSP | Rizwan Ahmed Siddique | 157 | 0.5 | ||
Independent | Kanhaiyalal Agarwal | 123 | 0.4 | ||
Independent | Kishore Kumar Mishra | 113 | 0.4 | ||
Independent | Rajiv Roy | 82 | 0.3 | ||
Independent | Dara Singh | 63 | 0.2 | ||
Independent | Manik Chand Bose | 54 | 0.2 | ||
Independent | Kamlesh Kumar Tiwari | 25 | 0.1 | ||
Independent | Janmejoy Pandey | 20 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 767 | 2.8% | |||
Turnout | 27,772 | (42.2%) | |||
RJD gain from AITC | Swing |
In the 2006 elections to the state assembly,[16] Mohammad Sohrab of RJD won the Burrabazarr seat defeating Amitabha Chakrabarty of Congress. In 2001,[15] Tapas Roy Trinamool Congress defeated Md. Asiruddin of RJD. Rajesh Khaitan of Congress defeated Md Asiruddin of JD in 1996,[14] Satya Narayan Bajaj of JD in 1991,[13] Shaukat Rahmani, Independent, in 1987[12] and Rabi Shankar Pandey in 1982.[11] In 1977, Rabi Shankar Pandey of Janata Party defeated Ramkrishna Sarogi of Congress.[10][18]
Ramkrishna Sarogi of Congress won the seat defeating Murlidhar Santhalia of CPI(M) in 1972,[9] Durga Prasad Nathany of Bharatiya Jan Sangh and Ajodhya Singh of CPI(M) in 1971,[8] and Ram Niwas Lakhotia of BJS and Bijay Krishna Dhandhania of Samyukta Socialist Party in 1969.[7] Ishawar Das Jalan of Congress won the seat defeating B.P.Kedia of BJS, and R.S.Pandey of SSP in 1967,[6] Kishan Lal Makharia of CPI) in 1962,[5] Sitaram Seth, Independent, and Sachidanand Pandey of BJS in 1957,[4] and Rashbehari Sarkar of Forward Bloc (Marxists) in independent India’s first general election in 1951.[3]