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'''Protiva Mukherjee''' (1934–2013) was an [[India]]n politician, belonging to the [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)]].
'''Protiva Mukherjee''' (1934–2013) was an Indian politician, belonging to the [[Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)]].


Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in [[Birbhum District]].<ref name="Sen1985">{{cite book|author=Sunil Kumar Sen|title=The working women and popular movements in Bengal: from the Gandhi era to the present day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQwuAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=K.P. Bagchi|page=100}}</ref> After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.<ref name="Sen1985"/> She contested the Suri constituency seat in the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 118|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 2 December 2016}}</ref> She again contested the [[Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Suri seat]] in the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =  http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 2 December 2016}}</ref> As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in [[Suri, Birbhum|Suri]].<ref name="Labour1968">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour|title=Labour Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXUXAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|page=224}}</ref>
Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in [[Birbhum District]].<ref name="Sen1985">{{cite book|author=Sunil Kumar Sen|title=The working women and popular movements in Bengal: from the Gandhi era to the present day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQwuAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=K.P. Bagchi|page=100}}</ref> After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.<ref name="Sen1985"/> She contested the Suri constituency seat in the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 118|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 2 December 2016}}</ref> She again contested the [[Suri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Suri seat]] in the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =  http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 2 December 2016}}</ref> As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in [[Suri, Birbhum|Suri]].<ref name="Labour1968">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour|title=Labour Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXUXAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|page=224}}</ref>

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Protiva Mukherjee
Born1934
Died2013
NationalityIndian
OccupationPolitician

Protiva Mukherjee (1934–2013) was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).

Mukherjee was born in 1934 in a middle-class family in Birbhum District.[1] After joining SUCI she became active in organizing peasants in her district.[1] She contested the Suri constituency seat in the 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 7,702 votes (21.12%).[2] She again contested the Suri seat in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 14,828 votes (36.34%).[3] As of 1968 she served as president of the Birbhum District Central Co-operative Bank Limited Employees Union, based in Suri.[4]

She was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Suri constituency seat in the 1969 and 1971 elections.[5] In the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election she got 27,517 votes (57.40%).[6] She held the post of Minister of State for Roads and Road Development in the second United Front government of West Bengal, formed in 1969.[7][8] She was the only female minister in the West Bengal government at the time.[9] In the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election she got 12,060 votes (34.54% of the votes in Suri), defeating the candidates of CPI(M), Bangla Congress and Congress(I).[10] In the violent environment of the area during the polls, Mukherjee was the sole prominent local political leader that had not sought refugee elsewhere.[11]

Mukherjee lost the Suri seat in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, being defeated by the Congress(I) candidate in a straight contest. She got 20,894 votes (44.01%).[12] She again contested the Suri seat in the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, finishing in third place behind the Congress(I) and CPI(M) candidates.[13] She got 9,880 votes (19.50%).[13] She again finished in third place in Suri in the 1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, winning 4,797 votes (5.88%).[14]

Mukherjee died in 2013.[15]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sunil Kumar Sen (1985). The working women and popular movements in Bengal: from the Gandhi era to the present day. K.P. Bagchi. p. 100.
  2. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 118. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  4. ↑ West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour (1968). Labour Gazette. p. 224.
  5. ↑ Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee. Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952–1991. The Committee. pp. 379, 419.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Subhash C. Kashyap; Laxmi Mall Singhvi; Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (New Delhi, India) (1969). The Politics of Defection: A Study of State Politics in India. National [Publishing House. p. 432.
  8. ↑ Careers Digest. Vol. 6. 1969. p. 57.
  9. ↑ The Indian Political Science Review. Vol. 14. Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. 1980. p. 70.
  10. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  11. ↑ Link: Indian Newsmagazine. Vol. 13. 1971. p. 22.
  12. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 141. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No 152. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  15. ↑ Economic Times. Former West Bengal minister and SUCI leader Prativa Mukherjee passes away on Friday