Chief Ministers of West Bengal edit
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Chief Ministers of West Bengal

# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 Prafulla Chandra Ghosh August 15, 1947 January 14, 1948 Indian National Congress
2 Bidhan Chandra Roy January 14, 1948 July 1, 1962 Indian National Congress
3 (President's rule) July 1, 1962 July 8, 1962
4 Prafulla Chandra Sen July 8, 1962 March 15, 1967 Indian National Congress
5 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee March 15, 1967 November 2, 1967 Bangla Congress in United Front
6 Prafulla Chandra Ghosh [2] November 2, 1967 February 20, 1968 Nonparty in Progressive Democratic Alliance Front
7 (President's rule) February 20, 1968 February 25, 1969
8 Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee [2] February 25, 1969 March 19, 1970 Bangla Congress Party in United Front
9 (President's rule) March 19, 1970 April 2, 1971
10 Prafulla Chandra Ghosh [3] April 2, 1971 June 28, 1971 Indian National Congress in coalition
11 (President's rule) June 28, 1971 March 19, 1972
12 Siddhartha Shankar Ray March 19, 1972 June 21, 1977 Indian National Congress
13 Jyoti Basu June 21, 1977 November 6, 2000 CPI(M) in Left Front
14 Buddhadeb Bhattacharya November 6, 2000 present CPI(M) in Left Front

References

"Modern Bengal", A Short History of Bengal, http://members.tripod.com/~tanmoy/bengal/modern.html, retrieved on 23 December 2005. 

See also