Jyoti basu a signature of communism in india. a man who made indians realise that a man need not be a gandhi to leave the primeminister's post.a man who was not a member of bjp or congress and believe me in indian politics that means alot.A man who was big enough to renounce the post of pm and who was smalll enough to be loved by poorest of poors. jyoti basu was born on 8th july 1914 in calutta .his real name was jyotindra basu .he was the member of cpm politbuerau from starting that is 1964 till 2008 with his death the first nine members that is first politbuerau team of cpm is no more in this world he was the last of that group.his father nishikanta basu was a doctor in a village which is now the pat of bangladesh.his mother hemlata basu was a housewife.he did his schooloing from loreto convent and st.xaviers.he did his undergraduation in english honours from presidency college calcutta after completing his undergraduation he went to england for his higher education in field of law in 1935.In 1940 he completed his studies and qualified as a Barrister at the Middle Temple. In the same year he returned to India. In 1944 Basu became involved in trade union activities when 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 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. In 1967, after the defeat of the Congress Government, Jyoti Basu was sworn-in as the Deputy Chief Minister under the Chief Ministership of Ajoy Mukherjee.In 1970, he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at the Patna railway station by the Anand Margis. Though CPI(M) became the single largest party in the assembly elections in 1971, the party was refused the chance to form a ministry and Presidents’ Rule was imposed in West Bengal.After the sweeping victory of the Left Front in 1977, Jyoti Basu became the Chief Minister of the Left Front government, a position he held continuously for more than 23 years, a record in the country.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.On 1 January, 2010, Basu was admitted to AMRI hospital, Bidhannagar, Kolkata after feeling unwell.On 16 January, 2010, his health condition became extremely critical and he was suffering from multiple organ failure. Seventeen days after being taken ill, he died on 17 January 2010 at 11:47 AM IST.
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