Global InformationBhaskar Tukaram Auti information
Bhaskarrao Tukaram Auti was a freedom fighter who played a major role in Indian Independence movement and was elected as a MLA for four consecutive terms from Parner District Ahmednagar Constituency. He won a seat representing Parner in the 1952 and 1957 Bombay Legislative Assembly elections. In the 1952 election, he stood as a Communist Party of India candidate. He was the first Communist MLA of India in the first general elections conducted post-independence. He obtained 12,570 votes (56.67%).[1] In the 1957 election, he stood as an independent, obtaining 14,519 votes (71.05%).[2] In the 1962 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election he finished in second place in Parner, obtaining 6,787 votes (24.93%).[3]
- ^ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 to the Legislative Assembly of Bombay
- ^ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 to the Legislative Assembly of Bombay
- ^ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Election, 1962 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra