Progressive Muslim League (West Bengal)
The Progressive Muslim League was a political party in West Bengal, India.[1][2] The party emerged ahead of the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[3] The party won three seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly; Nasiruddin Khan in Naoda, Ahammad Aktabuddin in Hariharpara and Harun-or-Rashid in Deganga.[4] The party had contested 40 out of 280 seats in the election, obtaining 208,574 votes (1.56% of the state-wide vote).[4] The party supported the United Front government in the state, without joining it.[5]
In the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the PML fielded two candidates, none of whom was elected.[6] The party obtained 13,821 votes (0.11%).[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Thought. Vol. 22. Siddhartha Publications. 1970. p. 62.
- ^ S. Nihal Singh (1 March 1993). The rocky road of Indian democracy: Nehru to Narasimha Rao. Sterling Publishers. p. 49. ISBN 978-81-207-1526-4.
- ^ Profulla Roychoudhury (1977). West Bengal--a Decade, 1965-1975. Boipatra. p. 130.
- ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ Profulla Roychoudhury (1985). Left Experiment in West Bengal. Patriot Publishers. p. 92.
- ^ a b "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
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