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'''Barada Mukutmoni''' was an Indian politician, belonging to the [[Bolshevik Party of India]]. He briefly served as Minister for Tourism in the state of [[West Bengal]].<br />
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==BPI leader in Bengal==<br />
In early 1944 the BPI [[politburo]] dissolved the [[Bengal]] Committee of the party and formed a 4-member secretariat for the province with Mukutmoni as one of its members.<ref name="Research1997">{{cite book|author=Indian Council of Historical Research|title=Towards freedom: documents on the movement for independence in India, 1943–1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddM-AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-563868-4|page=1687}}</ref><br />
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During the 1956 reorganisation of states in India, Mukutmoni took part in the protests against the proposed merger of Bihar and West Bengal into "Purba Pradesh".<ref name="Basu1999">{{cite book|author=Jyoti Basu|title=Memoirs, a political autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46BuAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=National Book Agency|isbn=978-81-7626-054-1|pages=115–116, 174}}</ref> He was a member of a January 1956 committee of left parties in West Bengal that reviewed that reorganisation proposal (other members included [[Jyoti Basu]] and [[Nihar Mukherjee]]).<ref name="Basu1999"/> As of 1959 he served as the President of the Radha Chemicals Workers Union.<ref name="LabourLabour1959">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Dept. of Labour|title=Labour Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p44XAQAAIAAJ|date=January 1959|page=262}}</ref><br />
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==Electoral politics==<br />
Mukutmoni contested the [[Titagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Titagarh constituency]] in the [[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name=s1957>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> He finished in fourth place with 1,923 votes (6.72)%.<ref name=s1957/> In the [[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] he contested the [[Deganga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Deganga seat]] and finished in second place with 11,449 votes (32.83%).<ref name=s1962>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref> In the [[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] he contested the [[Naihati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Naihati seat]] and finished in third place with 7443 votes (13.10%).<ref name=s1967>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL]''</ref><br />
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==Tourism Minister and BPI split==<br />
Mukutmoni was named Minister of Tourism in the second [[United Front (1967)|United Front]] government of West Bengal in March 1969.<ref name="Committee">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee|title=Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952–1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNeNAAAAMAAJ|publisher=The Committee|page=379}}</ref><ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|pages=91–92}}</ref><br />
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A split occurred in BPI in the wake of Mukutmoni joining the state government.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> To become a minister Mukutmoni had to resign from his post as secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of BPI, which he did.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> But when the State Committee met on 14 March 1969 Mukutmoni's candidate for new secretary was defeated in a vote.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> Mukutmoni refused to hand over the secretary post to the secretary-elect Sita Seth and in July 1969 the [[Central Committee]] of BPI declared expelled Mukutmoni and his followers from the party.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Studies1969"/> In response Mukutmoni formed a Central Committee of his own, with three expelled West Bengal State Committee members.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> The two factions clashed over control of the party headquarters on [[Chittaranjan Avenue|Central Avenue]].<ref name="Studies1969">{{cite book|author=Institute of Political and Social Studies|title=Institute of Political and Social Studies Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoZAAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|pages=11, 26}}</ref><br />
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A June 1969 edition of ''Himmat'' reported that Mukutmoni was about to lose his ministerial post.<ref>{{cite book|title=Himmat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhTmAAAAMAAJ|volume=5|year=1969|page=17}}</ref> As the [[West Bengal Legislative Council]] was abolished in August 1969 (a body to which Mukutmoni, in theory, had been able to get elected to), Mukutmoni was forced to resign from his ministerial post six months after the formation of the second United Front government.<ref name="Rao2003">{{cite book|author=M. V. S. Koteswara Rao|title=Communist parties and United Front experience in Kerala and West Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e0SAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Prajasakti Book House|isbn=978-81-86317-37-2|page=266}}</ref><br />
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==1971 elections==<br />
Ahead of the [[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]] the BPI (Barada Mukutmoni group) joined the CPI-led United Left Democratic Front.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Science Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOokAQAAMAAJ|volume=18–19|year=1979|publisher=Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan.|page=31}}</ref><ref name="Ray2007">{{cite book|author=Sudhir Ray|title=Marxist parties of West Bengal in opposition and in government, 1947–2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=loYOAQAAMAAJ|date=1 November 2007|publisher=Progressive Publishers|isbn=978-81-8064-135-0|page=160}}</ref> Mukutmoni stood as a candidate on a CPI ticket in [[Chakdaha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chakdaha]], finishing in fourth place with 4,479 votes (7.78%).<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | publisher= [[Election Commission of India]] | accessdate = 4 December 2016}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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