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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) [1] was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India .
Nov 8, 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]).
Jul 8, 2019 · Jyoti Basu, the beacon of Indian Communism who almost became prime minister. Basu was the consensus leader of the United Front after Vajpayee’s short-lived 13-day govt, but the CPI (M) did not participate—he called it a 'historic blunder'. Samyak Pandey.
Dec 4, 2021 · 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...
Feb 11, 2010 · Jyoti Basu was by far the most important Indian leader to have demonstrated, as head of the West Bengal government for over two decades, that, far from being a source of instability, coalition...
Aug 8, 2024 · Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the last Marxist chief minister of Bengal who succeeded Jyoti Basu and was at the helm till May 2011, passed away on Thursday morning. Years ago, in an interview to Manini Chatterjee of The Telegraph (published on January 12, 2010), Bhattacharya spoke about his mentor who was then in hospital battling for his life.
