The Second Ajoy Mukherjee ministry was the coalition government that ruled the Indian state of West Bengal for 13 months, 1969–1970.
The United Front got a renewed popular mandate in the 1969 election, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) calling the shots but with a non-leftist Chief Minister.
The 13-month reign of the Second United Front Cabinet was marked by the struggle for comprehensive land reform, labour disputes, political violence and coalition infighting.
[6] CPI(M) was the largest party of the United Front in the Legislative Assembly, but as per a pre-election agreement the post of Chief Minister went to Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee of the Bangla Congress.
[11] SSP, along with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, raised the 'Rabindra Sarobar incident' issue to discredit the United Front government.
[7] Mobilization for land reform was led by Hare Krishna Konar and Benoy Choudhury the key priority of the CPI(M).
[12] Through popular mobilisation 300,000 acres of land was redistributed, according to government sources, but widespread confrontations provoked a chaotic situation across the state.
[16] In Education, the Second United Front government introduced the Sahaj Path primer of Rabindranath Tagore for teaching Bengali language.
[3] A number of leaders of the Naxalite movement, such as Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal, which had been jailed by the first United Front government in 1967, were released in April 1969.
[24] By mid-1969 CPI(M) had an organised 50,000 member strong volunteer force in West Bengal, a body the party thought of as an embryo of a future Liberation Army.
[13] The prevailing chaos in the cabinet pushed the Chief Minister to undertake a hunger strike in Curzon Park, just in front of Writers' Building, in protest against his own coalition partners.
[27] On 19 February 1970, three ministers belonging to the Bangla Congress (Sushil Kumar Dhara, Charu Mihir Sarkar and Bhabatosh Soren) submitted their resignations to their party.