Jyoti Basu
Jyoti Basu ( Bengali : জ্যোতি বসু , Jyoti Basu ; * July 8, 1914 in Kolkata ; † January 17, 2010 ibid) was an Indian politician of the CPI (M) . He was Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000 and a member of the Politburo of his party from 1964 to 2008 .
Life
Basu was born the son of a judge. He graduated in 1935 from the humanities faculty of the prestigious Presidency College of Calcutta University and then went to London to study law. Through his college friend Bhupesh Gupta he came into contact with the British Communist Party and was involved in left-wing circles of Indian students in England.
Jyoti Basu returned to India in 1940 and immediately became a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI). In 1944 his party delegated him to the railway workers' union, where he became general secretary.
Political career
Basu was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly (Parliament of Bengal) in 1946 for the electorate of the railway workers . When the CPI split in 1964, Basu became a prominent leader of the new Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). In 1967 and 1969 Basu was Deputy Chief Minister (Deputy Prime Minister) of West Bengal in the government of a grand coalition.
From 1977 to 2000, Jyoti Basu was Siddhartha Shankar Ray's successor himself as Chief Minister of the State of West Bengal in left-wing governments. After the political unrest of the late 1970s during Indira Gandhi's reign , the political situation in West Bengal stabilized in the 1980s under Basu's leadership. After the parliamentary elections in India in 1996, he was nominated for the office of Prime Minister by the parties of the victorious United Front coalition, but the CPI (M) Central Committee decided not to take part in the government, which denied him this post. Basu resigned as Chief Minister of West Bengal for health reasons in 2000 and handed over the office to his party comrade Buddhadeb Bhattacharya . As a member of his party's Politburo, he was absent from a meeting for reasons of age in 2006 at the age of 91. In March 2008 he resigned from the top party body together with Harkishan Singh Surjeet , the only other remaining founding member of the Politburo of the CPI (M).
Basu was the longest-ruling chief minister of an Indian state until his term of 23 years and 137 days was surpassed by Pawan Chamling on April 29, 2018 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Basus-historic-blunder-is-Mulayams-biggest-regret/articleshow/5431876.cms
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Basu, Jyoti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician of the CPI (M), Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977-2000) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolkata |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 2010 |
| Place of death | Kolkata |