Politics
Ashokenagar was a bastion of Left politics till it was rocked by the Singur-Nandigram storm. The area was witness to the food movements of 1959 and 1966, refugee, students' and teachers' movements kept the locality politically vibrant till 1977. When the assembly segment was created for the first time in 1967, it was won by Dr. Sadhan Sen of the CPI. He held the seat in 1969 and 1971 also.Satyasebi Kar of CPI(M) won the Ashoknagar assembly seat in 2006 defeating Dhiman Roy of AITC. In 2001, Sharmistha Dutta of CPI(M) defeated Ashok Krishna Dutta of AITC.After sudden death of Nirod Roy choudhury, Mr. Badal Bhattacharjee of BJP defeated CPIM candidate by the big support of Trinomool Congress in 1998. In 1996, Nirod Roy Choudhury of CPI(M) defeated Dhiman Roy of INC. Dhiman Roy of AITC defeated Satyasebi Kar of CPIM in 2011 assembly election by huge margin. Nani Kar of CPI(M) defeated Keshab Chandra Bhattachatjee of INC/Ind in 1991, 1987, 1982 and 1977. The municipality was run by the Left Front till 2010 when it suffered a huge setback winning just 2 of the 22 seats. Both seats were won by the CPI-M while CPI and FB drew a blank. Former chairperson of AKM was Mrs. Sarmistha Dutta. Now Mr. Samir Dutta of TMC is Chairman of Ashoknagar Kalyangarh Municipality(22.06.10). In 2005, first human rights organization has come in this area which is known as CPDR Ashoknagar Branch by the initiative of a well known and famous social worker Shri Shymal Kumar Shome, he is also the working president of this organization.
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