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.Prakash JoshiAICC State Incharge AICC General Secretary2.Amba PrasadAICC State Co Incharge AICC Secretary3.Shashi PannaState Incharge West Bengal Adivasi Congress & National Coordinator All India Adivasi Congress, AICC 4.Subhankar SarkarPresidentWest Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee5.State Incharge Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sangathan 6. Eshan Ahmed Khan State Incharge West Bengal Pradesh Youth Congress7. Shrabanti SinghPresident West Bengal Pradesh Mahila Congress8.Navaneeta TirkeyChairperson West Bengal Pradesh Adivasi Congress 9. Priyanka Choudhary President West Bengal State Chhatra Parishad NSUI10. Rahul Pandey PresidentWest Bengal Pradesh Congress Seva Dal
List of presidents S.no President Portrait Term Duration1Ananda Gopal Mukherjee198119852Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi198519893Siddhartha Shankar Ray198919924Somendra Nath Mitra199219985A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury20 July 199822 August 20006Pranab Mukherjee22 August 200017 February 2008(2)Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi17 February 200823 October 20087Manas Bhunia23 October 200817 January 20118Pradip Bhattacharya17 January 201110 February 20149Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury11 February 201422 September 2018(4)Somendra Nath Mitra22 September 201830 July 2020(9)Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury9 September 202021 September 202410Subhankar Sarkar21 September 2024Incumbent
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 Term1.Prafulla Chandra Ghosh 15 August 194722 January 1948250 days21 November 196719 February 19682.Bidhan Chandra Roy23 January 19481 July 196214 years, 159 days3.Prafulla Chandra Sen 9 July 196228 February 19674 years, 234 days4.Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee 2 April 197128 June 197187 days5.Siddhartha Shankar Ray 20 March 197230 April 19775 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 YearAssemblyLeaderSeats contestedSeats won(+/-) in seats% of votesVote swingPopular voteOutcome19521stBidhan Chandra Roy23638.82%28,89,99419572nd251 246.14% 7.3248,30,99219623rdPrafulla Chandra Sen252 547.29% 1.1545,22,47619674th280 3041.13% 6.1652,07,93019695th280 7241.32% 0.1955,38,62219716thAbdus Sattar239 5029.19% 12.1337,67,31419727thSiddhartha Shankar Ray238 11149.08% 19.8965,43,25119778thPurabi Mukhopadhyay290 19623.02% 26.0632,98,06319829thAnanda Gopal Mukherjee250 2935.73% 12.7180,35,272198710thPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi294 941.81% 6.081,09,89,520199111thSiddhartha Shankar Ray284 335.12% 6.691,08,75,834199612thSomen Mitra288 3939.48% 4.361,45,23,964200113thPranab Mukherjee60 567.98% 31.5029,21,151200614th262 514.71% 6.7358,05,398201115thPradip Bhattacharya66 219.09% 5.6243,30,580201616thAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury92 212.25% 3.1667,00,938202117th92 443.03% 9.2218,27,169202618thSubhankar Sarkar293 22.97% 0.0619,00,942
Performance in General Elections + Lok Sabha ElectionsYearLok SabhaSeats contestedSeats won(+/-) in seats% of votesVote swingPopular voteOutcome19511st34 2442.10%32,05,16219572nd35 148.20% 6.1050,31,69619623rd36 146.79% 1.4145,53,67719674th40 839.69% 7.1051,05,17019715th31 128.20% 11.4936,87,66519776th34 1029.37% 1.1743,12,41819807th41 136.51% 7.1475,00,57819848th42 1248.16% 11.651,22,27,86319899th41 1241.38% 6.781,31,00,945199110th39 134.86% 6.521,08,34,675199611th42 440.09% 5.231,47,11,538199812th39 815.20% 24.8955,51,456199913th41 213.29% 1.9146,88,932200414th37 314.56% 1.2753,85,754200915th1413.45% 1.1157,49,051201416th42 29.58% 3.8749,46,911201917th40 25.61% 3.9732,10,491202418th12 14.70% 0.9128,27,055
See also Indian National Congress All India Congress Committee Congress Working Committee All India Mahila Congress Indian Youth Congress National Students Union of India
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