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| disbanded          = 1969
| disbanded          = 1969
| leader1_type      = Chairman
| leader1_type      = Chairman
| leader1            = NA
| leader1            = Governor of West Bengal
| leader2_type      = Deputy Chairman
| leader2_type      = Deputy Chairman
| leader2            = NA
| leader2            = Rabindranath Ghosh
| leader3_type      = Leader of the House
| leader3_type      = Leader of the House
| leader3            = NA
| leader3            = Amit Mitra
|leader4_type        = Deputy Leader of the house
|leader4_type        = Deputy Leader of the house
|leader4            = NA
|leader4            = Goutam Deb
| leader5_type      = Leader of the Opposition
| leader5_type      = Leader of the Opposition
| leader5            = NA
| leader5            = Shamik Bhattacharya
|leader6_type        = Deputy Leader of opposition  
|leader6_type        = Deputy Leader of opposition  
|Leader6            = NA
|Leader6            = Rahul Sinha
| members            = '''98'''
| members            = '''98'''
| voting_system1    = [[Proportional representation]], [[First past the post]] and Nominations
| voting_system1    = [[Proportional representation]], [[First past the post]] and Nominations
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'''West Bengal Legislative Council''' was the [[upper house]] of the [[bicameral]] legislature of the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]], which came into existence in 1952.<ref>{{cite book|title=Legislative committees in West Bengal|date=1974|publisher=Sunanda Ghosh Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, Political Science|page=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1UFAAAAMAAJ&dq=legislative+council+of+bengal+came+into+existence&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=legislative+council+of+west++bengal++1952|access-date=17 August 2016}}</ref>
'''West Bengal Legislative Council''' was the [[upper house]] of the [[bicameral]] legislature of the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]], which came into existence in 1952.<ref>{{cite book|title=Legislative committees in West Bengal|date=1974|publisher=Sunanda Ghosh Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, Political Science|page=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1UFAAAAMAAJ&dq=legislative+council+of+bengal+came+into+existence&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=legislative+council+of+west++bengal++1952|access-date=17 August 2016}}</ref>
==Abolition==
The Council was abolished in 1969. The [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] passed the resolution for the abolition of the Legislative Council on 21 March 1969. Later the [[Parliament of India]] passed the [[West Bengal Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969]] for abolishing the Legislative Council with effect from 1 August 1969.
The Council was abolished in 1969. The [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] passed the resolution for the abolition of the Legislative Council on 21 March 1969. Later the [[Parliament of India]] passed the [[West Bengal Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969]] for abolishing the Legislative Council with effect from 1 August 1969.


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[[Category:State upper houses in India]]
[[Category:State upper houses in India]]
[[Category:Defunct upper houses in India]]
[[Category:Defunct upper houses in India]]
[[Category:History of West Bengal (1947–present)]]
[[Category:Political history of West Bengal]]
[[Category:1952 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1952 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Political history of West Bengal]]