Jyoti Basu

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Jyotirindra Basu (8 July 1914–2010); also known as Jyoti Basu, an Indian politician from West Bengal, India (Marxist).

From 1977 to 2000, he served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal's state.

Basu was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the start of the party in 1964 and remained there until 2008.

He served on the party's central committee from 2008 to 2010.

Early life and education

Jyotirindra Basu was born on July 8, 1914, to a middle-class Bengali Kayastha family, located at 43/1 Harrison Road, Calcutta, British India. Nishikanta Basu, a doctor from Barudi, was a doctor whose hometown was in the Dhaka District of the Bengal Presidency, though his mother, Hemlata Basu, was a housewife. He grew up in a joint family in India and was the youngest of three siblings. Gana was his affectionate nickname. In the High Court, Nilinkanta Basu, one of his elder uncles, served as a judge. In Barudi, where Jyoti Basu is said to have spent a portion of his childhood, his family inherited ancestral lands. After his death, the Barudi home of Basu was turned into a library, according to reports, it was based on his wishes.

Basu's education began in 1920 at Loreto School Kindergarten in Dharmatala, Calcutta. At the time of admission, his father shortened his name from Jyotirindra to Jyoti. However, three years later, he was moved to Calcutta's St. Xaviers School. In 1932, he completed his secondary education at St. Xaviers. He took an undergraduate course in English from the Hindu College in Calcutta (later renamed to Presidency College). He received admission to the University College, London (UCL) to study Law and became a barrister at Middle Temple on January 26, 1940, following his graduation in 1935. By the time he obtained his barristerial certificate, which he obtained in absentia, he had already left India.

For the first time during his stay in London, he became involved in political discourse and activism for the first time. He will attend various lectures on political organization, constitutional law, international law, and anthropology at the London School of Economics in addition to his general curriculum (LSE). He is also regarded as an LSE sluggish, owing to this. Harold Laski's lectures had apparently influenced him, according to reports. Basu was a founder of several anti-imperialist Indian students unions such as the India League and the Federation of Indian Students, and he had become intimate with young Indian communists like Bhupesh Gupta and Snehangshu Acharya by 1937.

He had been a founding member of the London Majlis and then its first secretary in 1938. Another of the Majlis' main functions was to schedule receptions for Indian leaders who were visiting England at the time. Basu met with various Indian freedom campaign figures, including Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Krishna Menon, and Vijaya Pandit, through the Majlis.

Later life

Basu was re-elected to its Politburo in the 18th Congress of CPI(M), which was held in Delhi in 2005, although he had requested his resignation. The CPI(M) refused his appeal for retirement due to age on September 13, 2006, according to Prakash Karat, the party wanted Basu to continue until at least the 2008 congress. Basu was eventually disincluded from the Politburo in early April 2008, but his membership in the Central Committee was not withdrawn. He was also given the rank of Special Invitee to the Politburo, a sort of emeritus status within the CPI(M).

After being diagnosed with pneumonia, Basu was admitted to AMRI hospital (Bidhannagar, Kolkata) on January 1, 2010. He was suffering from multiple organ failure and that his health had become very critical on January 16, 2010. He died on January 17, 2010, at 11:47 a.m. IST, seventeen days after being sick. "Jyoti Babu has left us," Biman Bose said with tears.

The death was followed by public mourning on an unprecedented scale. Basu's body was carried through the streets of Calcutta on a gun carriage, as he was draped in the national flag. However, the time was wrong in his last moments as lakhs of people thronged central Kolkata's streets to pay their last respects. A swarm of people streamed in from every possible corner of the city, including police and volunteers, gave the place a helpless look. The Army escorted the cortege from the State Assembly to the Maidan via Red Road. The state Funeral had been planned at MoharKunj. As twenty one Gurkha troops fired a 21 volley rifle salute, the army buglers served the last post. President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, declared a national day of Mourning, which expressed their condolences.

On April 4, 2003, Basu had promised to donate his body and eyes for medical study at a function hosted by the Ganadarpan and Susrut Eye Foundation in Kolkata, but not at a crematorium. His eyes have been donated to Susrut Eye Foundation. Chandan's son Chandan, daughter-in-law Rakhi, grandsons Payel (Mallika Basu), Doyel (Bithika Basu), and Koyel (Juthika Basu), his grandfather, and granddaughter of daughter-in-law Rakhi, are among his father's who died in 1998). On October 1, 2003, his second wife, Kamala Basu, died. Basu's body was kept at 'Peace Haven' for those who wanted to show their appreciation. After a guard of honour at the nearby Moharkunja park (formerly, citizens' park), his body was handed over to SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, for study about 19 January 2010. The hospital authority is considering saving his brain.

Basu's death was mourned around the world and internationally. Many well-known celebrities' gratitude and condolences were posted on social media and attended his funeral. A few of their remarks are included below:

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