Baniapukur Ballygung Assembly constituency explained

Baniapukur Ballygung
Type:	SLA
State:	West Bengal
District:	Kolkata
Loksabha Cons:	Calcutta South East
Established:	1951
Reservation:	None
Abolished:	1957

Baniapukur Ballygung Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

Beniapukur and Ballygunge were areas added to the Calcutta Corporation in 1889.^[1] Baniapukur Ballygung was the sole two-member assembly seat in Calcutta.^[2] One seat was reserved for Scheduled Castes, the other seat was unreserved.^[2]

Results

In independent India's first election in 1951, Jogesh Chandra Gupta and Pulin Behari Khatic, both of Indian National Congress, won.^[3] Amongst the independent candidates in the fray were Jogendra Nath Mandal, a former Minister of Pakistan, and Dr. A.M.O. Ghani.^{[3] [4]}

References

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Notes and References

1. Book: Maitreyi Bardhan Roy. Calcutta Slums: Public Policy in Retrospect. 1994. Minerva Associates (Publications). 978-81-85195-62-9. 1.
2. Book: Benoyendra Nath Banerjea. New Constitution of India. 1951. A. Mukherjee. 167.
3. Web site: General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal . Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 178 . Election Commission . 30 November 2016.
4. Book: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52. 3 June 2009. Routledge. 978-1-134-01824-6. 165.