Nalhati
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Nalhati Location of Nalhati in West Bengal and India
Coordinates	24°18′N 87°49′E / 24.3°N 87.82°E / 24.3; 87.82Coordinates: 24°18′N 87°49′E / 24.3°N 87.82°E / 24.3; 87.82
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District(s)	Birbhum
Parliamentary constituency	Bolpur
Assembly constituency	Nalhati, Hansan
Population	56,249
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area • Elevation	• 48 metres (157 ft)
Website	birbhum.nic.in

Nalhati (Bengali: নলহাটি) is a town, municipality in Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal near the West Bengal / Jharkhand border. This town is named after the Shakti peetha Nalhateshwari temple, which according to the mythologies is the situated where the "nala" i.e. throat of goddess Shakti had fallen. It is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas in India.

Nahlati is a junction railway station where the Ajimgunj line joins the old Howrah—Sahebganj loop of the eastern railway.

Nalhati police station under Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district looks after two administrative blocks Nalhati I and Nalhati II.

Nalhati municipality was established in 2000.^[1]

Geography[link]

Nalhati is located at 24°18′N 87°49′E / 24.3°N 87.82°E / 24.3; 87.82.^[2] It has an average elevation of 48 metres (160 feet). It is on the Chhotonagpur plateau. A small portion of hill with very low altitude can be visible within the town. On the hill the Nalateswari temple and Ana Baba Mazar Sherif are two tourist interests. The soil of this part of Birbhum resembles that of Bankura and Purulia as "Lalmatir Desh" (land of red soil).

It is on Panagarh–Morgram Highway.

Places of Interests[link]

Nalhati is a tourist spot in West Bengal and is being promoted lately by the state government. It is healthy place to live for its pollution free environment. The Nalateswari Temple and Mazar Sherif atop the small hill is a must see of this town. Many interesting sights on the hill are no longer visible for growing urbanization. The Baidhara Shalbon at the Brahmani river delta and Chandramani hills near Bautia are nice place to go for a 15 km distance. There is good connectivity to Jharkhand, Bihar, North Bengal and south Bengal.

Located on the Chhotonagpur plateau, Nalhati is the source for good quality stone chips to South Bengal as there is a crasher belt near the town.

Education[link]

Two higher secondary school named Nalhati Hariprasad High School(Boys) & Nalhati High School for Girl's just 1.25 kms & .50 kms apart from Railway station.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nalhati travel guide from Wikitravel

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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Berhampore constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.^[1]

Political career[link]

Having dropped out of school at age 15, he started as a District leader of Youth Congress in the 1970s when political atmosphere was very tense and violent. He worked as a henchman for senior Congress leaders Abdus Sattar, MLA of Lalgola and Mohammad Idris Ali, MLA of Murshidabad, in 1972-77. He was arrested in a Police case in 1978 and 1982. He was noted for his strong leadership and aggressive spirit ( tit-for-tat killings against the Left Front). During the 1980s he was a booth agent and election agent for various Congress leaders from Murshidabad District. He became a Councillor of Baharampur Municipality in 1990, an MLA in 1996 and MP in 1998. in the 1996 Lok Sabha elections he was the chief election agent of former Chief Minister, Siddharta Shankar Ray, who was contesting the Berhampore seat, though he lsot by a margin of only 16,000 votes. When Chowdhury he contested the Berhampore Lok Sabha seat, nobody expected him to win as Berhampore had not been won by the Congress since 1951 and was an RSP stronghold. However, copying the tactics of the Left Front, he was able to win and carved it out as his own bastion, unleashing a reign of terror against the Left Front by using illegally acquired weapons from Bangladesh and mobilising the rural Muslim farmers and landowners against the CPI(M).

Murder charge[link]

Calcutta High Court on 2004 ordered his arrest on a charge of double murder.^[2][3] Adhir Chowdhury was granted bail after being arrested. Chowdhury had surrendered before the district court as per the high court order.^[4]Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said that the Left Front could stoop low enough to implicate Adhir Chowdhury’s wife Arpita in the double murder case. He had requested the chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, and CPM state secretary Anil Biswas not to involve family members in political battles.^[5]

External links[link]

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website (cache site)

References[link]

1. ^ Adhir Chowdhury -Political Profile Adhir Chowdhury -Political Profile
2. ^ Court case
3. ^ Court case
4. ^ "Adhir Chowdhury granted bail". indopia.inc. http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/22807/National/1/20/1. Retrieved 2009-07-30. 
5. ^ "Whiff of plot in CPM arrests - Priya sees conspiracy to end party reign in Murshidabad - Adhir puts leadership in spot". The Telegraph, 5 November 2005. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051105/asp/siliguri/story_5438144.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-30.