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'''Baniapukur Ballygunge''' was a constituency of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]], used in the [[1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1952 assembly election]].<ref name="Roy1994">{{cite book|author=Maitreyi Bardhan Roy|title=Calcutta Slums: Public Policy in Retrospect|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3LaAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Minerva Associates (Publications)|isbn=978-81-85195-62-9|page=1}}</ref> [[Baniapukur]] and [[Ballygunge]] were areas added to the [[Calcutta]] Corporation in 1889.<ref name="Roy1994"/> Baniapukur-Ballygunge was the sole two-member assembly seat in Calcutta.<ref name="Banerjea1951">{{cite book|author=Benoyendra Nath Banerjea|title=New Constitution of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUc-AAAAIAAJ|date=1951|publisher=A. Mukherjee|page=167}}</ref> One seat was reserved for [[Scheduled Caste]]s, the other seat was unreserved.<ref name="Banerjea1951"/><br />
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The seats were won by Jogesh Chandra Gupta and Pulin Behari Khatic, both candidates of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. 178 |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 30 November 2016}}</ref> Amongst the independent candidates in the fray were [[Jogendra Nath Mandal]], a former Minister of [[Pakistan]], and Dr. [[A.M.O. Ghani]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/><ref name="Bandyopadhyay2009">{{cite book|author=Sekhar Bandyopadhyay|title=Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Qd5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA165|date=3 June 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-01824-6|page=165}}</ref><br />
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