Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Members of Legislative Assembly
Table:
Election
Year
Constituency
Name of M.L.A.
Party Affiliation

1967
Kamarhati
Radhika Ranjan Banerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[2]

1969

Radhika Ranjan Banerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[3]

1971

Radhika Ranjan Banerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[4]

1972

Pradip Kumar Palit
Indian National Congress[5]

1977

Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6]

1982

Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]

1987

Radhika Ranjan Bannerjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8]

1991

Santi Ghatak
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9]

1996

Santi Ghatak
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]

2001

Manas Mukherjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11]

2006

Manas Mukherjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]

2011

Madan Mitra
All India Trinamool Congress[13]

2016

Manas Mukherjee
Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Taking into account the information in the given table titled Kamarhati (Vidhan Sabha constituency) — section "Members of Legislative Assembly", provide an answer in a short sentence to the question below: What was the history of the Kamarhati seat up to 1972? Provide just your answer in a JSON object {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: Pradip Kumar Palit of Congress won in 1972. Radhika Ranjan Banerjee of CPI(M) won in 1971, 1969 and in 1967; Prior to that the Kamarhati seat did not exist.