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Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya died on Thursday. He was ill for a long time. He breathed his last at the age of 80. CPI (M) state secretary Mohammad Salim has shared information about his death. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. Along with this, he was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was born on 1 March 1944 in North Kolkata. His ancestral home is in Bangladesh. He studied Bengali literature at Kolkata's prestigious Presidency College and completed his BA in Bengali (Hons). He later joined the CPI(M). He was made the state secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation, the youth wing of the CPI, which later merged with the Democratic Youth Federation of India.
For a time agriculture was the main source of income of West Bengal, but Budhadev took the biggest risk of his political life to change this situation by launching a campaign of industrialization. He invited foreign and national capital to set up factories in Bengal. These included the world's cheapest car Tata Nano, whose production plant was set up in Singur near Kolkata.
Apart from this, he also planned to start other big projects in the state, but due to opposition at the local level, he could not succeed and his party had to face a crushing defeat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. After this, in the 2011 assembly elections too, he lost to Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Manish Gupta. Then Manish Gupta defeated Budhadev Bhattacharya by a huge margin of 16,684 votes.
