- Rashbehari Avenue
Rashbehari Avenue (also Rash Behari Avenue) is one of the most prestigious and important avenues of
Kolkata ,a major portion of this road is often commonly referred to asGariahat , the prime shopping and aristocratic residential neighbourhood of south Kolkata.Rashbehari Avenue falls in the posh residential neighbourhood of Ballygunge.Localities
The buzzing
Gariahat Market is located on Rashbehari Avenue andGariahat Road Crossing ("Gariahat Mor"). It is best known for its fish offerings. You can get any fish of your choice on any day there. The vegetable market is also quite exclusive. The other three points of the crossing contains a wide collection of Indian sarees, other items such as readymade garments, electronic gadgets, and almost every other thing that you can imagine can be found there. Besides the regular shops, there are the makeshift shops that crowd the sidewalks. These shops are the ones where one gets to purchase something at a bargain price (if you can bargain).The main shopping area, perhaps the largest in Kolkata, runs all the way down to its intersection with
Sarat Bose Road (Deshapriya Park ) but mainly up toTriangular Park . Then it travels further west to meetShyama Prasad Mukherjee Road (previously Russa Road) atRashbehari Crossing ("Rashbehari Mor") and heads towardsAlipore viaChetla .In the east, it meets the
Eastern Metropoliton Bypass at GOLD PARK (Ruby Hospital ). This extended part of it starting from the eastern flank ofBijan Setu . The Flyover over suburban railways at Ballygunge station till Ruby doesn't bear its original name, but is commonly called theRashbehari Avenue Connector .The important traffic intersections from east to west are near
Ekdalia (Ballygunge Station stop), Gariahat, Hindustan Park (Ballygunge area), Deshapriya Park (Sarat Bose Road), Lake Market and Rash Behari (Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road).The important roads that run immediately parallel to it are
Southern Avenue to its south andHazra Road (now renamed) to its north.Landmarks
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Gariahat Market
*Deshapriya Park
*Exclusive shopping malls
*Exclusive shops
*Priya cinema Politics
In the 2006 and 2001 elections to the West Bengal state assembly, Sobhandeb Charropadhyay of AITC won the Rash Behari Avenue seat defeating Mala Roy of INC and Sitaram Behani of JD(S) respectively. In 1996, 1991, 1987 and 1982, Hoimi Basu of INC won the seat defeating Ranjan Banerjee of
CPI(M) in 1996, Ashim Chatterjee of CPI(M) in 1991, Ayan Prokash Chatterjee of CPI(M) in 1987 and Ashok Mitra of CPI(M) in 1981. Ashok Mitra of CPI(M) won the seat in 1977 defeating Ashok Kumar Mukhopadhyay of JD. [cite web | url = http://www.eci.gov.in/electionanalysis/AE/S25/partycomp149.htm
title = 149 - Rashbehari Avenue Assembly Constituency | accessdate = 2007-09-17 | last = | first = | work = Partywise comparison since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India]Rashbehari Avenue is part of
Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency) [cite web | url = http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2001/background/S25/WB_ACPC.pdf | title = General election to the Legislative Assembly, 2001 – List of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies | accessdate = 2007-10-08 | last = | first = | work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India]References
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