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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) [2] was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. [3] [4] He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.
Jul 8, 2019 · New Delhi: Jyoti Basu had many achievements to his name, such as being India’s longest-serving chief minister (overtaken by Pawan Kumar Chamling) and a beacon of India’s Communist movement. But in 1996, he came close to adding another feather to his cap — almost becoming India’s first Bengali and Marxist prime minister, eventually ...
Aug 30, 2024 · Jyoti Basu (born July 8, 1914, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died Jan. 17, 2010, Kolkata) was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of West Bengal state from 1977 to 2000 and was a cofounder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M]).
May 30, 2021 · D IMINUTIVE Jyoti Basu, who outlived most of his contemporaries, was a man of towering political stature, India’s pre-eminent and most charismatic Communist leader at the mass level and one of...
Jan 16, 2024 · His biggest regret was that the education system of Bengal had lost its standing and that young students preferred to move out of the state. But, above all, Jyoti Basu was a complete bhadralok, a perfect gentleman. His kind of honesty is difficult to imagine in today's time.
Jan 17, 2010 · Jyoti Basu: A legend in Indian politics. He was a Marxist to the core who was equally at home with bourgeois democracy and capitalist ideas. If destiny had been on his side, Jyoti Basu would...
Jan 17, 2010 · Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu was born on July 8,1914 as Jyoti Kiran Basu into an upper middle-class Bengali family in Kolkata.
Jan 18, 2010 · NEW DELHI Jyoti Basu, a powerful leftist leader who dominated politics in the state of West Bengal for more than two decades and nearly became India’s first Communist prime minister, died in ...
Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He serve...
Jan 21, 2010 · Jyoti Basu, almost India’s first Communist prime minister, died on January 17th, aged 95
