But Subrata Mukherjee, who died at a Calcutta hospital on Thursday night at the age of 75, was an exception. Siddhartha Sankar Ray, the last Congress chief minister, never won an election again. None of the Bengal Congress leaders who had a role in the state’s last Congress government (1972-77) that served during the Emergency, managed to remain relevant in the state’s politics after the Left Front government stormed to power to rule for a continuous stretch of 34 years till 2011.
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