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1. indianexpress.com › article › cities72 Baranagar hero regrets defeating Basu - The Indian Express

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   Jan 18, 2010 · Basu contested elections from the Satgachia constituency from 1977 to 1996. In the 1977 Assembly elections,he defeated Jumman Ali Mollah of Congress. The margin was huge,Basu got 45.538 votes while Mollah got just 7,092 votes. “After the elections in 1972,we never spoke.

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2. indianexpress.com › article › news-archiveShouldn t have contested,says man who defeated Basu

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   Jan 18, 2010 · Basu contested state elections from the Satgachia constituency from 1977 to 1996. In the 1977 Assembly elections,Basu defeated Jumman Ali Mollah of Congress. Basu got 45.538 votes while Mollah got 7,092.

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3. www.fact.net.in › special-reports › buddhadebsBuddhadeb's vision vs Basu's caution: The debate that shaped ...

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   This was highly unusual since Basu's public demeanor was typically calm, and the party rarely aired its differences outside its Alimuddin Street headquarters. The divide was clear by then: it was Basu against Bhattacharjee and Bose, who clearly agreed to disagree.

4. frontline.thehindu.com › cover-story › end-of-an-eraJyoti Basu: End of an era - Frontline

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   Feb 11, 2010 · Though it was a new area for Jyoti Basu, he defeated his Congress rival, Harendranath Chowdhury, by 5,429 votes. The CPI won 28 of the 71 seats it contested in the 238-member Assembly, and...

5. www.indiatoday.in › india-today-insight › storyFrom the India Today archives (2010) | Jyoti Basu: The last ...

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   Jan 16, 2024 · Basu denied any rift with his successor, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya: "We like him. He is a serious comrade." He also repeated his belief that not accepting prime ministership was a historic blunder, but he added: "Not for me, but for the party and for Bengal."

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6. caravanmagazine.in › perspectives › fading-redJyoti Basu, the architect of the Indian parliamentary Left ...

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   Feb 1, 2010 · It culminated in the bloodbath at Baranagar, where hundreds of Left supporters were massacred by Congress-supported goons, and where Jyoti Basu suffered the most humiliating defeat of his chequered legislative career, losing to a CPI lilliputian by more than 40,000 votes.

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   What happened to Jyoti Basu?

   • FOR 17 days from January 1, as Jyoti Basu lay fighting for his life in a private nursing home in Kolkata and a steady stream of visitors ranging from political heads to movie stars dropped in to express their concern for his health and wish him a quick recovery, there remained outside the nursing home a silent mass of humanity.

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   Why did Jyoti Basu oppose CPI?

   • Jyoti Basu opposed it on the floor of the Assembly on the grounds that the draconian Bill gave unlimited powers to the bureaucracy and the police to check public agitations. In March 1948, the West Bengal unit of the CPI was banned and Jyoti Basu was arrested and imprisoned for three months.

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   Why did Jyoti Basu oppose the West Bengal Special Powers Bill?

   • In the same year, the West Bengal Special Powers Bill, which later came to be known as the West Bengal Security Act, was placed in the Assembly. Jyoti Basu opposed it on the floor of the Assembly on the grounds that the draconian Bill gave unlimited powers to the bureaucracy and the police to check public agitations.

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   How did Jyoti Basu become a barrister?

   • After passing his Senior Cambridge Examinations and Intermediate from St Xaviers School and College respectively, Jyoti Basu enrolled in Presidency College from where he passed out with Honours in English in 1935. He then set off for the United Kingdom to become a barrister as per his familys wishes.

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8. www.telegraphindia.com › india › battle-lost-and-wonBattle lost and won - Telegraph India

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   Jan 18, 2010 · This seat on Calcutta’s northern fringes had been Basu’s home turf, from where he had contested six Assembly polls since Independent India’s first election in 1952. He won the first five. In January 1952, he defeated a mighty opponent, Congress minister Harendranath Roy Chowdhury.