Biplobi Bangla Congress
Biplobi Bangla Congress is a political party in West Bengal, India. The party emerged as a splinter group of the Bangla Congress party ahead of the 1971 [West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971 West Bengal elections]. It was founded by Sukumar Roy, a prominent member of Congress. BBC is now a part of the Left Front.
History
The formation of BBC is an important part of the history of Politics of West Bengal. The Congress party held state power for the first two decades after partition, before trying out another grouping in 1967. At that time, the first United Front government came to power with Ajoy Mukherjee of the Bangla Congress as chief minister, Jyoti Basu as deputy chief minister and ministry of land and land revenue as Hare Krishna Konar.Thereafter followed four years of political instability due to the Naxalite rebellion and police counter-action, the Congress muscled its way back to power in the 1972 elections, when even Jyoti Basu lost his assembly seat to a nonentity by 40,000 votes.
In 1977, the voters brought the Biplobi Bangla Congress and Left Front merged to power, with latter retaining the title and from since then they remained firm as the ruling party of West Bengal for 34 years.