Before independence West Bengal was a part of undivided Bengal. After partition Bengal was demarcated in to West Bengal with Kolkata as its capital city, which was the capital of India during British Empire.
As a state of secular India, West Bengal is governed through a parliamentary system. The head of the state is Governor, appointed by president of India. The West Bengal Legislative assembly consists of 295 members including one from Anglo-Indian community.The head of the Govt. is Chief Minister, & is vested with most of Executive power.
There are 19 districts in West Bengal, each governed by a District Magistrate. Every district again divided in to Sub-Divisions, governed by SDO and each sub-division again divided into Blocks which consist of BDO, Panchayat, & Town Municipality.
West Bengal has played a vital role in pre independence politics of the country. This city was the hometown of some countries famous politicians like Subhas Chandra Bose, Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, Bipin Chandra Pal.. and many others.
West Bengal has always been a hot spot in politics of the country. Some major political parties in this region are the coalition led by CPI(M) known as Left Front which consist of 9 left parties, All India Trinomool Congress, The Indian National Congress, and other regional political parties like GNLF, Gorkha Janamukti Morcha etc.
The Left front is ruling the state for last 34 years; making it longest democratically elected communist govt. in the world. In the time period of 1977 to 2000 Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister of CPI(M) led left front govt. At present Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, the chief Minister is running the CPI(M) led 7th left front govt. in the state.
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