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295:. The Labour Party was banned. He was detained for three years and joined the Indian National Congress and dissolved the Labour Party upon his release. On the other hand Nirmal Sen and some twenty key party member joined CPI in 1943. A group led by Promode Sen, student leader of BPI, joined the Indian National Congress in 1944.
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A split occurred in BPI in the wake of
Mukutmoni joining the state government. To become a minister Mukutmoni had to resign from his post as secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of BPI, which he did. But when the State Committee met on 14 March 1969 Mukutmoni's candidate for new secretary was
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Bhattacharya became the new general secretary of BPI. Sudha Roy replaced Sisir Roy as UTUC general secretary. At the 1965 party conference Sudha Roy called for a merger between BPI and CPI. The conference rejected a merger and Sudha Roy and her followers left BPI to join
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In 1957 a split occurred between Sisir Roy, the party general secretary, and
Bishwanath Dubey, a prominent trade union leader of the party. Roy accused Dubey of acting in cahoots with US imperialist interests. The split broke the Dock Mazdoor Union into two, and also provoked a split in UTUC. Dubey
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Congress. These Bengal Labour Party leaders, such as N. Dutt Mazumdar, Sisir Roy (founding general secretary of the Calcutta Port Dock Workers Union), Biswanath Dubey and Ajit Roy founded BPI in 1939. The Bolshevik Party of India was an underground MarxistâLeninist organisation,
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Bhattacharya group) joined the CPI(M)-led United Left Front whilst the BPI (Barada Mukutmoni) joined the CPI-led United Left Democratic Front. When CPI later withdrew from front politics in West Bengal, the Mukutmoni faction aligned with the
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to a "base theory of class-collaboration with the reactionary
Gandhian leadership of the bourgeois Congress". BPI called on CPI cadres to revolt against their party leadership. N. Dutta Mazumdar was the founding general secretary of BPI.
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in July 1969, with three expelled West Bengal State
Committee members: Sita Kanta Bhattacharjee, Jyotish Dutt and Santosh Mukherjee. The two factions clashed over control of the party headquarters on
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Mukutmoni and his followers from the party. In response Mukutmoni formed a Central Committee of his own at a meeting in Kalyani,
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and was briefly represented in the state government in 1969. In later years the party has played a negligible role in Indian politics.
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in the mid-1930s, but maintained the Labour Party as an open organisation. However, they disagreed with the role of CPI around the
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and his followers constituted a faction of their own, which in 1959 joined the Tagore faction of the
357:. Roy obtained 25,792 votes (16.2% of vote in the constituency). The party contested 8 seats in the
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502:(third place, 13.10%), Sita Seth in Bhatpara (fourth place, 1.99%) and Nepal Bhattacharya in
388:. In June 1954 the Workers and Peasants League of Nepal Bhattacharya merged with the party.
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However, N. Dutta Mazumdar did not agree with this position and supported the
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361:. Together they obtained 20,117 votes (0.27% of the state-wide vote). In the
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334:. The headquarter of the party was based in Ballygunj, Calcutta.
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The party contested the 1991 elections as a partner of the
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Anandi Mukherji-led faction of the Forward Communist Party
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970:, Madras: Tamil Nadu Academy of Political Science, 1988.
146:. Prominent leaders of the Bengal Labour Party included
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and instead orient India toward trade pacts with the
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345:. BPI, then recognised as a national party by the
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