India's veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu dies

Former West Bengal Chief Minister and senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Jyoti Basu is dead. If destiny had been on his side, Jyoti Basu would have become India's prime minister in 1996. Jyoti Basu holds the record for maximum years as CM. No one documented the violence that took place today in his regime.
Joti Bose ( in bengal )had suffered multi-organ failure and was on a temporary pacemaker since Saturday night, passed in Kolkata on Sunday morning.
Rest in Peace. Ironically, pragmatic and more flexible than many current comrades. Man who could have been PM.
End of an era.

Jyoti Basu stiil in critical condition

Rumor spreads that Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu died at his 96 , he was on Friday admitted to Hospital with complication of pneumonia.
News channels Star Ananda live and 24 Ghanta is live on the situation and the latest report is that Sri Jyoti Basu is Alive and all the news about his death is completely baseless.
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, Joti 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.

Mamata Banerjee visits Jyoti Basu

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.