West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee

West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ প্রদেশ কংগ্রেস কমিটি
PresidentSubhankar Sarkar
Founded19 June 1966 (1966-06-19)
HeadquartersBidhan Bhavan,Sealdah, Entally, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700014
NewspaperAndolon.in
Student wingWest Bengal State Chhatra Parishad
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left
ECI StatusA State Unit of Indian National Congress
AllianceIndian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (National level)
Seats in Rajya Sabha
0 / 16
Seats in Lok Sabha
1 / 42
Seats in West Bengal Legislative Assembly
0 / 294
Seats in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration
0 / 62
Election symbol
Website
wbpcc.org

The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC), formerly known as the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee in Colonial India, is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of West Bengal. It is responsible for the organization and management of the party's activities and campaigns in the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections.

Structure and composition

S.no Name Designation
1. Ghulam Ahmad Mir AICC State Incharge
AICC General Secretary
2. Amba Prasad AICC State Co Incharge
AICC Secretary
3. Shashi Panna State Incharge
West Bengal Adivasi Congress & National Coordinator All India Adivasi Congress, AICC
4. Subhankar Sarkar President
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
5. State Incharge
Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sangathan
6. Eshan Ahmed Khan State Incharge
West Bengal Pradesh Youth Congress
7. Shrabanti Singh President
West Bengal Pradesh Mahila Congress
8. Navaneeta Tirkey Chairperson
West Bengal Pradesh Adivasi Congress
9. Priyanka Choudhary President
West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad NSUI
10. Rahul Pandey President
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Seva Dal

List of presidents

S.no President Portrait Term Duration
1 Ananda Gopal Mukherjee 1981 1985 4 years, 0 days
2 Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 1985 1989 4 years, 0 days
3 Siddhartha Shankar Ray 1989 1992 3 years, 0 days
4 Somendra Nath Mitra 1992 1998 6 years, 0 days
5 A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 20 July 1998 22 August 2000 2 years, 33 days
6 Pranab Mukherjee 22 August 2000 17 February 2008 7 years, 179 days
(2) Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 17 February 2008 23 October 2008 249 days
7 Manas Bhunia 23 October 2008 17 January 2011 2 years, 86 days
8 Pradip Bhattacharya 17 January 2011 10 February 2014 3 years, 24 days
9 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 11 February 2014 22 September 2018 4 years, 223 days
(4) Somendra Nath Mitra 22 September 2018 30 July 2020 1 year, 312 days
(9) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 9 September 2020 21 September 2024 4 years, 12 days
10 Subhankar Sarkar

21 September 2024 Incumbent 1 year, 184 days

List of chief ministers of West Bengal from Indian National Congress

As of 2025, there have been five chief ministers of West Bengal from the Congress:

S.no Name Portrait Term
1. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh 15 August 1947 22 January 1948 250 days
21 November 1967 19 February 1968
2. Bidhan Chandra Roy 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. Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee 2 April 1971 28 June 1971 87 days
5. Siddhartha Shankar Ray 20 March 1972 30 April 1977 5 years, 41 days

Political history

The Indian National Congress was popular in West Bengal from India's independence in 1947 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 Bharatiya Janata Party 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.

West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Year Party leader Seats Contested Seats won Change
in seats 		Outcome
1952 Bidhan Chandra Roy 236
150 / 294
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1957 Bidhan Chandra Roy 251
152 / 294
 2 style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Government
1962 Prafulla Chandra Sen 252
157 / 294
 5 Government
1967 Prafulla Chandra Sen 280
127 / 294
 30 Opposition
1969 Prafulla Chandra Sen
55 / 294
 72 Opposition
1971 Abdus Sattar
105 / 294
 60 Opposition
1972 Siddhartha Shankar Ray
216 / 294
 111 style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; " class="table-yes2" |Government
1977 Purabi Mukhopadhyay 290
20 / 294
 196 Opposition
1982 Ananda Gopal Mukherjee 250
49 / 294
 29 Opposition
1987 Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 294
40 / 294
 9 Opposition
1991 Siddhartha Shankar Ray 284
43 / 294
 3 Opposition
1996 Somendra Nath Mitra 288
82 / 294
 39 Opposition
2001 Pranab Mukherjee 60
26 / 294
 56 Opposition
2006 Pranab Mukherjee 262
21 / 294
 5 Opposition
2011 Pradip Bhattacharya 66
42 / 294
 21 Government
2016 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 92
44 / 294
 2 Opposition
2021 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 92
0 / 294
 44 Lost
2026 Subhankar Sarkar

Performance in General Elections

Lok Sabha Elections
Year Lok Sabha Seats contested Seats won (+/-) in seats % of votes Vote swing Popular vote Outcome
1951 1st 34
24 / 34
 24 42.10% 32,05,162 Government
1957 2nd 35
23 / 36
 1 48.20% 6.10 50,31,696 Government
1962 3rd 36
22 / 36
 1 46.79% 1.41 45,53,677 Government
1967 4th 40
14 / 40
 8 39.69% 7.10 51,05,170 Government
1971 5th 31
13 / 42
 1 28.20% 11.49 36,87,665 Government
1977 6th 34
3 / 42
 10 29.37% 1.17 43,12,418 Opposition
1980 7th 41
4 / 42
 1 36.51% 7.14 75,00,578 Government
1984 8th 42
16 / 42
 12 48.16% 11.65 1,22,27,863 Government
1989 9th 41
4 / 42
 12 41.38% 6.78 1,31,00,945 Opposition
1991 10th 39
5 / 42
 1 34.86% 6.52 1,08,34,675 Government
1996 11th 42
9 / 42
 4 40.09% 5.23 1,47,11,538 Opposition
1998 12th 39
1 / 42
 8 15.20% 24.89 55,51,456 Opposition
1999 13th 41
3 / 42
 2 13.29% 1.91 46,88,932 Opposition
2004 14th 37
6 / 42
 3 14.56% 1.27 53,85,754 Government
2009 15th 14
6 / 42
 13.45% 1.11 57,49,051 Government
2014 16th 42
4 / 42
 2 9.58% 3.87 49,46,911 Opposition
2019 17th 40
2 / 42
 2 5.61% 3.97 32,10,491 Opposition
2024 18th 12
1 / 42
 1 4.70% 0.91 28,27,055 Opposition

See also

References

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