Contested Elections
BBC candidate Tushar Kanti Laya contested the Sabong seat in Midnapore for 2001 assembly elections of the state and won it. In the 2006 assembly elections of West Bengal, BBC again contested the Sabong seat with Tushar Kanti Laya as its candidate (on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) symbol). Laya got 62,079 votes (44.98%), but lost the seat to a Congress candidate. Following it, Rita Chowdhury contested in 2005 Kolkata Municipal polls, as part of Left Front and has been elected from ward no 41. She also retained her seat in 2010 municipal polls as well. In 2011, its candidate Rampada Gorai lost the Sabang seat to Manas Bhuian - the then PCC chief.
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