In 1996 and 1991, Shyamaprosad Bose of CPI (M) defeated Sadhan Kumar Ghosh and Shyamadas Banerjee (both of Congress) in respective years.

In 1982 and 1977, Kaustav Roy of CPI (M) defeated Shyamadas Banerjee and Pradip Bhattacharya (both of Congress) in the respective years.

Some unconfirmed sources suggest that in order to avoid infighting within the party & also due to some differences with the then State Pradesh Congress leadership, he opted not to contest the elections.

Such was the reputation, popularity & charisma of Sujit Das that even various prominent CPI(M) politburo members like Benoy Chowdhury & the then ministers in the Left front cabinet Nirupam Sen & Nisith Adhikary had in one interview acknowledged that it would have been difficult for the CPI(M) to retain the Burdwan South seat both in 1982 & 1987 if Sujit Das had contested the elections on a Congress ticket.

Due to internal factionalism and on account of some personal reasons, Sujit Das, then an employee of Burdwan University had opted to stay out of the electoral race mostly due to a fallout with Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, else various sources [though unconfirmed] revealed he would have had defeated Nirupam Sen in 1987 as well as in 1982.

Pradip Bhattacharya, also a prominent youth leader in the early 1970s, became the Labour Minister in the Siddhartha Shankar Ray led ministry.

Mostly a trouble shooter for the party during crisis, Sujit Das, an avid sportsperson and district cricket team captain was a very prominent Chattra Parishad student leader and hailed from one of the reputed and wealthiest families in Burdwan.