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HOOGLY
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Assembly Constituencies
Singur*
Chandannagar
Chunchura
Balagarh (SC)
Pandua
Saptagram
Dhanekhali (SC)
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All the seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Hooghly district.
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Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland.
According to The Statesman, "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election.
The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony.
Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxixt government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Singur which forms part of the Hooghly constituency."
The Dunlop tyre plant at Sahaganj, in this constituency is closed. According to Hindustan Times, "The entire jute industry, with eight mills in Hooghly, is sick…From Tribeni in north to Hind Motor in south, by the bank of Hooghly exists the Hooghly industrial belt, now seeking oxygen. Two fertiliser units, one food processing unit, two cotton mills, one steel plant and many other small and medium scale units have closed down over the years."
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Assembly segments[edit]
Singur (assembly constituency no. 188)
Chandannagar (assembly constituency no. 189)
Chunchura (assembly constituency no. 190)
Balagarh (SC) (assembly constituency no. 191)
Pandua (assembly constituency no. 192)
Saptagram (assembly constituency no. 193)
Dhanekhali (SC) (assembly constituency no. 197)
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Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[18]
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2004-09
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[19]
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2009-14
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
All India Trinamool Congress[20]
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2014-19
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
All India Trinamool Congress[21]
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2019-incumbent
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2019
BJP
Locket Chatterjee
6,71,448
46.03
AITC
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
5,98,086
41.00
CPI (M)
Pradip Saha
1,21,588
8.34
INC
Pratul Chandra Saha
25,374
1.74
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2014
AITC
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
614,312
45.54
CPI (M)
Pradip Saha
425,228
31.52
BJP
Chandan Mitra
221,271
16.40
INC
Pritam Ghosh
42,226
3.13
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2009
AITC
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
5,74,022
52.37
CPI (M)
Rupchand Pal
4,92,499
42.36
BJP
Dr. Chuni Lal Chakraborty
39,784
3.42
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2004
CPI (M)
Rupchand Pal
496,890
54.00
AITC
Indrani Mukherjee
329,924
35.90
INC
Ashok Kumar Das
70,173
7.60
JDP
1951
Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
Renuka Roy
Indian National Congress
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1957
Provat Kar
Communist Party of India
Sachindra Chosdhury
Indian National Congress
1962
Provat Kar
Communist Party of India
Nirmal Kumar Sen
Indian National Congress
1967
Bejoy Krishna Modak
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
P.K.Palit
Indian National Congress
1972
Bejoy Krishna Modak
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Phani Ghosh
Indian National Congress
1977
Bijoy Krishna Modak
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Bishnu Charan Banerjee
Indian National Congress
1980
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Santimohan Roy
Indian National Congress (I)
1984
Indumati Bhattacharya
Indian National Congress
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1989
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Umasankar Halder
Indian National Congress
1991
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Umasankar Halder
Indian National Congress
1996
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Gouri Sankar Banerjee
Indian National Congress
1998
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Tapan Dasgupta
Trinamool Congress
1999
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Tapan Dasgupta
Trinamool Congress
2004
Rupchand Pal
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Indrani Mukherjee
Trinamool Congress
2009
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
Trinamool Congress
Rupchand Pal
Communist party of India (Marxist)
2014
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
Trinamool Congress
Pradip Saha
Communist party of India (Marxist)
2019
Locket Chatterjee
Bharatiya Janata Party
Dr. Ratna De (Nag)
Trinamool Congress
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