Jyoti Basu

Comrade Jyoti Basu
6th Chief Minister of West Bengal
In office 21 June 1977 – 5 November 2000
Governor	See list Anthony Lancelot Dias Tribhuvan Narain Singh B. D. Pande Anant Sharma Satish Chandra (acting) Uma Shankar Dikshit Saiyid Nurul Hasan T. V. Rajeswar B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge) K. V. Raghunatha Reddy A. R. Kidwai Shyamal Kumar Sen Viren J. Shah
Deputy	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (from 12 January 1999)
Preceded by	President's rule (Siddhartha Shankar Ray as Chief Minister)
Succeeded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 1977–2001
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Sonali Guha
Constituency	Satgachhia
In office 1952–1972
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Shiba Pada Bhattacharjee
Constituency	Baranagar
1st Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal
In office 25 February 1969 – 16 March 1970
Chief Minister	Ajoy Mukherjee
Preceded by	Vacant
Succeeded by	Bijoy Singh Nahar
In office 1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967
Chief Minister	Ajoy Mukherjee
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Vacant
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 1946–1947
Succeeded by	Office disbanded
Constituency	Railway Employees
Member of Politburo, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
In office 1964–2008
Home Minister of West Bengal
In office 21 June 1977 – 1996
In office 25 February 1969 – 16 March 1970[1]
Succeeded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Other state Ministry offices Minister of Planning and Development In office 21 June 1977 – 5 November 2000 Minister of Finance In office 1982–1984 Succeeded by Ashok Mitra Minister of General administration In office 1977–2000 In office 1969–1970 Minister of Commerce, Industries and Industrial Reconstruction In office 1993–2000 Preceded by Kanailal Bhattacharyya Succeeded by Nirupam Sen
Personal details
Born	Jyotirindra Basu (1914-07-08)8 July 1914 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	17 January 2010(2010-01-17) (aged 95) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Political party	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1964–2010) Communist Party of India (1940–1964)
Spouses	Basanti Basu ​ ​ (m. 1940; died 1942)​ Kamala Basu ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 2003)​
Children	Chandan Basu
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata University College, London London School of Economics Middle Temple
Signature
Website	https://jyotibasu.net/

Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010)^[2] was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India.^[3][4] He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.^[5][6][7] He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the member of Politburo of the party since its formation in 1964 till 2008. He was also the member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times.^[8] In his political career, spanning over seven decades, he was noted to have been the India's longest serving chief minister in an elected democracy, at the time of his resignation.^[9][a] He was proposed for the post of Prime Minister of India for four times.

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