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Jyoti Basu

Chronology of Jyoti Basu's life

IANS, 17 January 2010, 12:32pm IST
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KOLKATA: Jyoti Basu, who died here Sunday, resigned from active politics in 2000 but continued to guide the communist movement in India. (

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- Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), July 8, 1914.

- Graduated from Presidency College with honours in English. He did his Bar at Law from London where he got introduced to Marxism and politics.

- Returned to India in 1940. Joined Communist Party of India (CPI).

- In 1944 he was a functionary of Bengal railway workers' union.

- In 1946 he was elected to the Bengal legislative assembly, defeating Humayun Kabir of Congress.

- He won from Baranagar assembly constituency in 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1969 and 1971. He lost the seat in the 1972 snap polls.

- In 1964, he helped set up the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

- In 1967, he became deputy chief minister in a coalition government in Bengal.

- Became chief minister of West Bengal June 21, 1977 and headed the Left Front government till Nov 6, 2000.

- Narrowly missed a chance to become India's prime minister in 1996 after his party's veto. He later called the party decision a "historic blunder".

- In 2000, he announced his retirement from active politics and stepped down as chief minister on health grounds.

- In 2004, he played a key role to stitch an alliance between the Left parties and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
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A tall man in Indian politics| Read By basab on 18/01/2010 at 09:26 pm
A great loss to india.| Read By preeti on 18/01/2010 at 09:47 am
I have no word to say anything because I have lost my father and I try my level best to stop eye drops but I can not.| Read By Gopal Mazumder on 18/01/2010 at 09:35 am
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