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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The All India Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist political party founded in India in 1939 by Subhas Chandra Bose after his resignation from the Indian National Congress presidency.
- Why did Subhas Chandra Bose found the Forward Bloc instead of staying in the Congress?
- How does the Forward Bloc differ from the Congress Socialist Party?
- Is the All India Forward Bloc still active today?
- When did the Forward Bloc become a full political party?

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## Timeline

1. 29 April 1939

   Bose resigned the presidency on , and on 3 May 1939 he announced the formation of the Forward Bloc at a gathering in Calcutta (Kolkata).

2. 3 May 1939

   Bose resigned the presidency on 29 April 1939, and on he announced the formation of the Forward Bloc at a gathering in Calcutta (Kolkata).

3. 22 June 1940

   The organisation held its first All-India Conference at Nagpur on 20–, where it formally constituted itself as a fully fledged political party with its own c…

4. 18 August 1945

   After independence, debates over Bose's legacy—including the unresolved circumstances of his reported death in a plane crash at Taihoku (Taipei) on —periodic…

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In 2009 the All India Forward Bloc, contesting as part of West Bengal's Left Front, won two Lok Sabha seats, reflecting the party's residual strongholds before its sharp decline following the Trinamool Congress victory of 2011.

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