Progressive Muslim League (West Bengal)

The Progressive Muslim League was a political party in West Bengal, India.[1][2] The party emerged ahead of the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[3] The party won three seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly; Nasiruddin Khan in Naoda, Ahammad Aktabuddin in Hariharpara and Harun-or-Rashid in Deganga.[4] All in all the party had contested 40 out of 280 seats in the election, obtaining 208,574 votes (1.56% of the state-wide vote).[4] The party supported the United Front government in the state, without joining it.[5]

PML fielded two candidates in the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, out of whom none was elected.[6] The party obtained 13,821 votes (0.11%).[6]

References

1. Thought. 22. Siddhartha Publications. 1970. p. 62.
2. S. Nihal Singh (1 March 1993). The rocky road of Indian democracy: Nehru to Narasimha Rao. Sterling Publishers. p. 49. ISBN 978-81-207-1526-4.
3. Profulla Roychoudhury (1977). West Bengal--a Decade, 1965-1975. Boipatra. p. 130.
4. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
5. Profulla Roychoudhury (1985). Left Experiment in West Bengal. Patriot Publishers. p. 92.
6. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.