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In the following Bengal famine of 1943, the members of the Communist Party including Basu were involved in famine relief work.
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.
Jul 8, 2019 · Having developed a firm belief in the Communist ideals, Basu returned to India in 1940 and joined the Communist Party of India, also becoming secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union and Anti-Fascist Writers’ and Artists’ Association in Calcutta.
Aug 30, 2024 · On his return to Calcutta in 1940, he became a party worker for the Communist Party of India (CPI), participating in the organization of rail workers near the end of the British colonial era. When India became independent of British rule in 1947, Basu was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Jan 17, 2010 · On returning to India, Basu joined the then undivided Communist Party of India (CPI) and in 1944, three years before the British Raj ended, started working among railway workers.
Jul 8, 2016 · Jyoti Basu, the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born on July 8 in 1914. Basu had administered the ideology of his political party, the Communist Party of India (Marxism) or CPI (M), from 1964 to 2008.
Jan 18, 2010 · He then joined the Communist Party of India and began organizing railroad workers in the last years of the British raj. After India’s independence in 1947, Mr. Basu was elected several times...
