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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India .
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 ...
Jul 4, 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]).
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...
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...
I met Shri Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of West Bengal in November 1977 in Darjeeling. I was the Deputy Commissioner, Darjeeling. This was soon after the Left Front Government had come to power in West Bengal.
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 ...
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 (previously known as Calcutta).
Jan 17, 2010 · Mr Basu ran the world's longest serving elected Communist government. Jyoti Basu came within a whisker of becoming India's first ever Communist Prime Minister. But it was his own...
Jan 20, 2010 · Jyoti Basu, one of India’s most respected leftwing political leader, died on Sunday aged 95 after a multiple organ failure. The former leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist passed away...
