Burtola was an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

The Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house or the sole house of the provincial legislature in the different states of India. The same name is also used for the lower house of the legislatures for two of the union territories, Delhi and Pondicherry...

 constituency in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

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As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission

Delimitation Commission of India

Delimitation commission or Boundary commission of India is a Commission established by Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act. The main task of the commission is to redraw the boundaries of the various assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on a recent...

, Burtola (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011.

It was part of Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)

Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)

Calcutta North East was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on North East area of Kolkata in West Bengal.-Assembly segments:...

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1977-2006

Sadhan Pande representing Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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 won the 158 Burtolla assembly seat defeating Kalyan Mukherjee of RSP

Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

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  in 2006

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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 and 2001. Earlier, Sadhan Pande, representing Congress

Indian National Congress

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 defeated Parimal Routh of RSP in 1996 and 1991, and Sunil Sengupta of RSP in 1987. Ajit Kumar Panja

Ajit Kumar Panja

Ajit Kumar Panja was a former Union minister of state in the Government of India. He was a member of Congress party but left it to join Trinamool Congress. He was born in Calcutta and studied law at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta and at the Lincoln's Inn. A lawyer by profession, he...

 of Congress defeated Nikhil Das of RSP in 1982. Nikhil Das of RSP defeated Ajit Kumar Panja of Congress in 1977.

1951-1972

Ajit Kumar Panja won in 1972 and 1971. Nikhil Das of RSP won in 1969 and 1967, Amarendra Nath Basu of Congress in 1962

West Bengal state assembly election, 1962

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. In 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

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, Burtolla had two seats. Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri of Congress won the Burtola Noth seat. Amarendra Nath Basu of Congress won the Burtola South seat. In independent India’s first election

West Bengal state assembly election, 1952

The West Bengal state assembly election of 1952, part of a series of state assembly elections in 1952.-Alliances:On the political left, two alliances had emered the United Socialist Organisation of India and the People's United Socialist Front The West Bengal state assembly election of 1952,...

Nirmal Chandra De of Congress won the Burtola seat.