Protiva Mukherjee

Protiva Mukherjee was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).

Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in Birbhum District.[1] After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.[1] She contested the Suri constituency seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1962, finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).[2] She again contested the Suri seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967, finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).[3] As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in Suri.[4]

She was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Suri constituency seat in the 1969 and 1971 elections.[5] In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1969 she got 27,517 votes (57.40%).[6] She held the post of Minister of State for Roads and Road Development in the second United Front government of West Bengal, formed in 1969.[7][8] She was the only female minister in the West Bengal government at the time.[9] In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1971 she got 12,060 votes (34.54% of the votes in Suri), defeating the candidates of CPI(M), Bangla Congress and Congress(I).[10] In the violent environment of the area during the polls, Mukherjee was the sole prominent local political leader that had not sought refugee elsewhere.[11]

Mukherjee lost the Suri seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1972, being defeated by the Congress(I) candidate in a straight contest. She got 20,894 votes (44.01%).[12] She again contested the Suri seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1977, finishing in third place behind the Congress(I) and CPI(M) candidates.[13] She got 9,880 votes (19.50%).[13] She again finished in third place in Suri in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1982, winning 4,797 votes (5.88%).[14]

References

  1. 1 2 Sunil Kumar Sen (1985). The working women and popular movements in Bengal: from the Gandhi era to the present day. K.P. Bagchi. p. 100.
  2. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 118. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  4. ↑ West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour (1968). Labour Gazette. p. 224.
  5. ↑ Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991. The Committee. pp. 379, 419.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Subhash C. Kashyap; Laxmi Mall Singhvi; Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (New Delhi, India) (1969). The Politics of Defection: A Study of State Politics in India. National [Publishing House. p. 432.
  8. ↑ Careers Digest. 6. 1969. p. 57.
  9. ↑ The Indian Political Science Review. 14. Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. 1980. p. 70.
  10. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  11. ↑ Link: Indian Newsmagazine. 13. 1971. p. 22.
  12. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  13. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
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