Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu at his 96 , was on Friday admitted to Apollo Gleneagles Hospital with complication of pneumonia. Today Mamata Banerjee came to the hospital to see Jyoti Basu .
Rumors are on the net that the veteran leader Jyoti Basu died.
Jyoti Basu was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946, contesting the Railway constituency. When the Communist Party of India split in 1964, Basu became one of the first nine members of the Politburo of the newly-formed Communist Party of India (Marxist). In 1967 and 1969, Basu became Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal in the United Front governments.
From June 21, 1977 to November 6, 2000, Basu served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the Left Front government. In 1996 Jyoti Basu seemed all set to be the consensus leader of the United Front for the post of Prime Minister of India. However, the CPI(M) Politburo decided not to participate in the government, a decision that Jyoti Basu later termed a historic blunder. H.D. Deve Gowda from the Janata Dal instead became Prime Minister.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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