Jyoti Basu

Jyoti Basu
Jyoti Basu
	Basu in 1996
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 Chief Minister	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ; (from 12 January 1999)
Preceded by	President's rule; (Siddhartha Shankar Ray as Chief Minister)
Succeeded by	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
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 Politburo, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
	In office; 1964–2008
Leader of Opposition, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1957–1967
Preceded by	Office Established
Succeeded by	Khagendra Nath Dasgupta
State Secretary, Communist Party of India, West Bengal
	In office; 1953 – 1960
Home Minister of West Bengal
Other state Ministry offices
Home Minister of West Bengal
	In office; 21 June 1977 – 1996
	In office; 25 February 1969 – 16 March 1970
Minister of Transport
	In office; 1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967
Minister of Planning and Development
	In office; 21 June 1977 – 5 November 2000
Minister of Finance
	In office; 1982–1984
	In office; 1 March 1967 – 21 November 1967
Minister of General administration
	In office; 1977–2000
	In office; 1969–1970
Preceded by
Legislative offices
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
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1946–1947
Succeeded by	Office disbanded
Constituency	Railway Employees
Personal details
Born	Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914; Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	17 January 2010 (aged 95); Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Cause of death	Pneumonia
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	1
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata; University College, London; London School of Economics; Middle Temple
Signature
Website	https://jyotibasu.net/

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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu or Jyoti Bose; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was a member of Politburo of the party since its formation in 1964 till 2008. He was also a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times. 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. He declined the post of Prime Minister after the 1996 Indian general election after the CPM refused to let him head a multi-party coalition as it would not be able to implement Marxist programs and relinquished the prime ministership to Deve Gowda.