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57 Muslim MLAs in newly elected West Bengal
Assembly
Friday May 13, 2011 11:21:36 PM,
ummid.com & Agencies
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New Delhi:
The 294-member newly elected West Bengal Assembly will have 57 Muslim Members.
This is perhaps the first time that Muslim MLAs will cross the
mark of 50 in one assembly.
In 2006 elections, 46 Muslim
candidates were elected to the assembly.
The results for the 2011 assembly
elections held in six different phases in April/May this year,
which saw the historic victory of Mamata Bannerji led Trinamool
Congress Party, were announced today. The results brought down the
curtain on the 34-year uninterrupted rule of the Communist Party
of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front.
The Left Front - the longest serving Communist-led government in a
democratic set-up - was routed in the elections with most of its
ministers, including Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,
losing the elections.
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