Everything about Jyoti Basu totally explained
Jyoti Basu (born
July 8,
1914) is a Communist politician from
West Bengal, India. Basu is a member of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist), and, as the
Chief Minister of West Bengal from
1977 to
2000, was India's longest-serving Chief Minister. He was a member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau from the time of the party's founding in 1964 until 2008.
Background
Basu was the son of a wealthy doctor, born into an upper middle-class
Bengali family in
Calcutta. His father, Nishikanta Basu, hailed from the village of Barodi in
Dhaka District,
East Bengal (now in
Bangladesh). He got his school education at
St. Xavier's Collegiate School. He graduated from
Presidency College with an honours degree from the Art Faculty in
1935, and subsequently travelled to
London to study law. He was introduced to the
Communist Party of Great Britain through Bhupesh Gupta.
Basu returned to India in
1940 after qualifying for the Bar and became a whole-timer of the
Communist Party of India. In 1944 Basu became involved in trade union activities. CPI delegated him to work amongst the railway labourers. When B.N. Railway Workers Union and B.D. Rail Road Workers Union merged Basu became the general secretary of the union.
Political career
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 Polit Bureau of the newly-formed Communist Party of India (Marxist). At the 19th congress in early April 2008, Basu wasn't included on the Polit Bureau,
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