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	Jyoti Basu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basu was the Chief Minister of the state of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.
		In 1946 Basu was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly, contesting the Railway constituency.
		Basu is the longest-serving Chief Minister's in Indian political history.He is still active in national politics even at the age of 93 and a polit bureau member of the party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jyoti_Basu (873 words)

	netGuruIndia Features: Jyoti Basu-After a long Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jyoti Basu was arrested for the second time and was released under this Habeas Corpus.
		Basu was a new entrant in that committee.
		Jyoti Basu was a state secretariat member and since I was in charge of the Peace Cell, I had to go to him and seek his advice on certain issues.
	www.netguruindia.com /features/jyotibasu/interview.html (1114 words)

	Jyoti Basu-After a long Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Basu contested in very first election as a candidate in 1944 from the Railway constituency which included the entire B. Railway except Assam.
		Chandan Basu was born in the September of 1952.
		Basu elected as the longest surviving Chief minister in 1995.
	www.netguruindia.com /features/jyotibasu/chronology.html (387 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Surabhi Banerjee on why Jyoti Basu lost the race for prime minister
		Jyoti Basu was in Delhi on May 10 for a meeting of the Politburo to discuss the situation.
		Basu was not euphoric about the prospect though the idea had been mooted to him ever since he had became one of the country's most important leaders in the past few years.
		Basu did not betray his inner turmoil and proposed that as the Politburo was undecided, the issue be placed before the Central Committee.
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/mar/28basu.htm (1389 words)

	IEO PROFILE: Jyoti Basu, Popular Communist Leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal
		And even Mr Basu, who mischievously renamed the Calcutta address of the American Consulate to Ho Chi Minh street, was forced to swallow his Yankee-phobia and go to Washington to seek investment for West Bengal, where he has ruled as chief minister for 19 years.
		Mr Basu's Communist Party of India (Marxist) belongs to a ragtag assortment of small regional parties, socialists and other communists (without the Marxist bracket behind their name), and parties who champion the rights of India's Muslim minority and the lower-caste Indians who are trying to escape out from under the bottom of Hinduism's complex hierarchy.
		Mr Basu's party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), not to be confused with Communist Party of India, opted out of the United Front but says it will not go against the coalition on crucial votes in parliament.
	www.ieo.org /basu.html (654 words)

	Wax clone for Jyoti Basu on 90th birthday
		Marxist stalwart Jyoti Basu received his own wax model as a gift from his comrades on his 90th birthday on Tuesday.
		Basu, wearing his trademark nonchalant look, took the flowers from the kids, who were later served sweets.
		Basu stepped down as the state chief minister in 2000 after remaining at the helm for 23 years because of health problems.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jul/08basu.htm (278 words)

	Personality - Shri Joyti Basu
		Jyoti Basu is a prominent figure in Indian politics for over fifty years, first as a young Communist party worker and legislator, than as a leader of opposition in West Bengal legislature and finally as Chief Minister of West Bengal for an unprecedented five terms, from 1997 onwards.
		As Basu approaches his eighty sixth year, though he is still very fit and not ageing fast at all, he longs for a respite from the arduous pace of work and the responsibility which he has been carrying over the last sixty years.
		The major achievements of Basu in domestic affairs, since he came to power, are political stability and democracy; land reforms and betterment of rural economies; a thoroughly non-communal ambience in the state; and evolving a viable and multifaceted industrial policy even with limited powers.
	www.calcuttayellowpages.com /joytibasu.html (625 words)

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		When Jyoti Basu first came to power in Calcutta as chief minister of one of India's most populous states, the Soviet Union was still securely under communist control, Jimmy Carter was president of the United States, and Margaret Thatcher had still to win her first UK general election victory.
		Jyoti Basu points to the establishment of village councils, and the redistribution of land to peasant farmers, as the successes of his time in power.
		After the 1996 general election, Jyoti Basu had a chance to become India's prime minister at the head of a centre-left coalition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1009728.stm (657 words)

	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Comrade Jyoti Basu is fully in agreement with the decision taken by the party and hence there is no question of his "Going against the party line" as the Times of India report put it.
		Jyoti Basu, spoke to me this morning and was very agitated about the concocted claims made in the report.
		Jyoti Basu said that it was part of a conspiracy to defame the Party and asserted that he had made no such remark while speaking to Bardhan, whom he met while attending the funeral of CPI leader, Geeta Mukherjee.
	cpim.org /statement/2000/2000_march_07_jb_rjd.html (364 words)

	Indiainfo.com - News - India - Jyoti Basu's condition stable
		New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu condition is stable.
		Basu, 87, who is India's longest serving Chief Minister, was first taken to Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital on Friday morning and was later shifted to AIIMS.
		Basu had complained of uneasiness while attending a meeting of his Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) policy-making central committee.
	news.indiainfo.com /2000/07/29/basu.html (339 words)

	Comrade Hiren Mukherjee Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jyoti Basu said that the union government remained dependent on the Left, and the Left in the present situation needs the Congress to see the communal BJP does not come back to office in any manner.
		Jyoti Basu noted that the CPI(M) and the Left parties had waged a long and arduous struggle against the Congress and yet, it was with Left support that the Congress could form a government.
		Basu recalled how, when he had visited the ailing Mukherjee in a City hospital, the Communist leader had said that he was enduring a great pain but that his brain continued to function as before.
	pd.cpim.org /2004/0822/08222004_bengal.htm (919 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Surabhi Banerjee on why Jyoti Basu lost the race for prime minister
		Basu displayed a calm exterior during the meeting but a fierce storm was brewing within.
		Meanwhile, as the Central Committee deliberated, the main partners in the central coalition met at Bihar Bhavan and unanimously decided on Jyoti Basu as their candidate for prime minister as V P Singh had declared that he would not be available for the position.
		Basu told him it was a political issue and his opinion did not count.
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/mar/28basu1.htm (716 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		Basu had for a long time been pushing for a greater flexibility in economic programmes, labour policy and the functioning of the party.
		An overwhelming majority of the delegates supported Basu’s thesis that "the decision to not participate in the central government in 1996 was a historic blunder".
		Basu had to intervene to restrain his squabbling disciples, but the fracas gives some idea of the kind of person the new chief minister is. Immediately after taking over, Bhattacharya told this writer in an interview: "I am very proud of Bengal’s contribution to India.
	www.himalmag.com /dec2000/analysis.html (2337 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Surabhi Banerjee on why Jyoti Basu lost the race for prime minister
		Later, Basu met with leaders of the United Front and alternative names for the prime ministership were discussed.
		In the absence of Basu and V P Singh as candidates, G K Moopanar of the Tamil Maanila Congress and H D Deve Gowda were mooted as alternatives.
		Basu proposed Deve Gowda for the prime ministership and this was accepted.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/mar/29basu2.htm (711 words)

	Basu for Family, never mind Party!
		It is even said that before he left office, Jyoti Basu extracted a promise from his successor, who was fool enough to give it, that Nara Narayan Gooptu would be retained as Advocate-General.
		If Jyoti Basu wants to continue to play his little games and his party is content to indulge him and necessarily pays for the luxury, there can be no objection from any quarter.
		Besides, Jyoti Basu forgets that His Excellency, Rashtrapati K R Narayanan is Head of State not head of the country's protocol department, responsible for keeping ambitious former Chief Ministers from excesses.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1200/32.html (925 words)

	Jyoti Basu to stay on
		JYOTI BASU, India's longest-serving Chief Minister, has decided to continue in office for some more time, reversing his earlier decision to retire on September 15.
		Speaking to Frontline, Surjit said that Jyoti Basu had wanted to retire basically because of health problems but he had been persuaded to continue in offi ce for some more time in order to complete some unfinished tasks of the party and Left Front government of West Bengal.
		Political observers correlate the postponement of Basu's retirement with the political situation prevailing in West Bengal in the wake of the aggressive anti-government campaign being carried out by the Trinamul Congress.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1719/17191330.htm (535 words)

	The Hindu : National : A political journey with Jyoti Basu
		"A political journey with Jyoti Basu lasting more than six decades," is how filmmaker Goutam Ghose describes his latest documentary — one on the nonagenarian Marxist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister that is to be screened for the first time to a private audience here tomorrow.
		Ghose seven years to complete, is sub-titled in English, "Journey with Jyoti Basu," to be ready for screening in New Delhi next month when the Communist Party of India (Marxist) holds its congress.
		Ghose's itinerary included a visit with Jyoti Basu to his ancestral home in Bangladesh's Dhaka-Bikrampur district on the banks of the Megna, to London where the politician had spent a lot of his younger days and places in West Bengal he had gone on whistle-stop tours, addressing congregations.
	www.hindu.com /2005/03/31/stories/2005033103721300.htm (654 words)

	Central Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		KOLKATA: "A political journey with Jyoti Basu lasting more than six dec- ades," is how filmmaker Goutam Ghose describes his latest docu- mentary - one on the nonagenarian Marxist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister that is to be screened for the first time to a private audience here tomorrow.
		Ghose seven years to complete, is sub- titled in English, "Journey with Jyoti Basu," to be ready for screening in New Delhi next month when the Communist Party of India (Marxist) holds its congress.
		Ghose's itinerary included a visit with Jyoti Basu to his ancestral home in Bangladesh's Dhaka-Bikrampur district on the banks of the Megna, to London where the politician had spent a lot of his younger days and places in West Bengal he had gone on whistle- stop tours, addressing congregations.
	www.centralchronicle.com /20050401/0104129.htm (466 words)

	Statement of Jyoti Basu before Justice Liberhan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Deposing on January 29 before the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry into the sequence of events leading to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Jyoti Basu, as reported by the national newspapers, squarely blamed the Narsimha Rao government for failure to take steps to prevent the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
		Stating that two days before the event, he had warned the prime minister of the impending attack, Basu expressed the view that the demolition of the Masjid could have been avoided if only the central government had declared president's rule in Uttar Pradesh before the congregation of 'kar sevaks' in Ayodha in December 1992.
		Jyoti Basu is due to again appear before the Commission sometime in March.
	pd.cpim.org /2001/feb04/feb4_jb.htm (720 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro
		Jyoti Basu leaves Nandan with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after the screening.
		Jyoti Basur Songe (A Journey with Jyoti Basu), the two-hour documentary by Goutam Ghose, brought to Nandan on Thursday evening the chief minister, members of his cabinet, leading industrialists and film-makers.
		“I decided to make this documentary on Jyoti Basu as he is one of the few living politicians to have seen seven decades of the political scenario, nationally and internationally.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050401/asp/calcutta/story_4559359.asp (211 words)

	rediff.com Special: What Jyoti Basu's 23 year rule has given West Bengal
		Syed Firdaus Ashraf glances at Jyoti Basu's achievements and failures.
		hen a young Jyoti Basu alighted at Bombay harbour in 1940, after 50 months of studying to be a lawyer in England, he was full of dreams.
		Basu's explanation, given in an interview to The New York Times, was, 'The (Indian) Constitution does not permit state governments to bring about fundamental changes or even tackle major economic and social problems.'
	in.rediff.com /news/2000/nov/09basu.htm (1100 words)

	head (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Altogether 29 cabinet ministers and 13 ministers of state - all belonging to Jyoti Basu's outgoing ministry - were sworn in.
		Jyoti Basu came to the dias, crowd roared with the slogan "Com.
		Basu reminded that Left Front was not born in a day.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/2000/001120/head.htm (720 words)

	rediff.com: Jyoti Basu, in an exclusive interview
		Basu said age related problems made it increasingly difficult for him to bear the demanding work schedule of the CM's secretariat.
		Basu was, however, asked to continue till the 2001 assembly election in the state.
		Basu blamed Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for creating a law and order problem in an "otherwise peaceful West Bengal." Holding the Union railway minister responsible for the ongoing political clashes in Midnapore, Basu said things assumed alarming proportions only after "this lady visited Keshpur and made inflammatory and provocative speeches there."
	in.rediff.com /news/2000/sep/02basu.htm (765 words)

	Bear With UPA Govt, Says Jyoti Basu
		A Central Committee member quoted Basu as saying: “We may have to be a little more patient with the Congress because it is trying to find its bearings after being in the opposition for such a long time.
		Basu was apparently trying to calm down CPI(M) hard-liners like Mohammad Salim and Chittabrata Majumdar who accused the Manmohan regime of deviating from the common minimum program — the left’s condition for supporting the government.
		Basu’s comments, as well as misgivings of hard-liners, are significant because the three-day Central Committee meeting is all set to finalize the draft of the CPI(M)’s political resolution which will be presented at the party congress in April.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=57366&d=11&m=1&y=2005&pix=world.jpg&category=World (471 words)

	Natwar talk on Iraq against CMP: Basu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kolkata: Veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu today vehemently opposed External Affairs minister Natwar Singh's remark on a fresh look on the issue of sending Indian troops to Iraq, and said it was totally contrary to the Common Minimum Programme of the UPA government at the Centre.
		Stating that Singh's statement ran counter to the CMP spirit of the UPA government, Basu told reporters such a suggestion must be discussed in the Union Cabinet and ''we should be consulted.
		Basu said there had been no change in the situation in Iraq under American occupation for the last 14 months.
	web.mid-day.com /news/nation/2004/june/85561.htm (307 words)

	archive: SC slaps notice on Jyoti Basu for 'misuse of discretionary
		Among the beneficiaries of discretionary allotment were close relatives, friends and personal staff of Mr Basu, ministers, parliamentarians, legislators, judges, bureaucrats and the husband of Surabhi Banerjee, writer of the,,only authorised biography" of Mr Basu.
		Mr Ghosh's PIL has sought a declaration that the allotment of land by Mr Basu, being a public servant, was oppressive, arbitrary, unconstitutional and unexceptional and as such exemplary damages should be imposed on him.
		The petitioners have sought appointment of a committee under direct supervision of the apex court to scrutinise all cases of discretionary allotments after due notice to the allottees and on the basis of the report of the committee, the court should take decision on the validity of the allotments.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0599/33.html (425 words)

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