Jyoti Basu remembered on his 111th birth anniversary

Siliguri, July 08 (HS). Former Chief Minister of Bengal Jyoti Basu was remembered on his 111th birth anniversary. Lal Salaam was offered to him by garlanding his picture in all the party offices of the entire department area including the party office Anil Vishwas Bhawan.
Former Siliguri Mayor and Left leader Ashok Bhattacharya, Jibesh Sarkar, District CPI(M) Secretary Saman Pathak, Jai Chakraborty, Munshi Nurul Islam, Sourav Das and other leaders were present. During this, the leaders threw light on his biography.

It was told that Comrade Jyoti Basu was born on 8th July 1914 in East Bengal which is now Bangladesh. He left his law practice in London and adopted leftist politics and remained with it. He was a skilled politician, capable administrator, reformist and a leftist leader who created history in many matters. He remained the Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years and also dominated the political scene of the country for almost five decades. Jyoti Basu's personality had such charisma that despite ideological differences, all the opposition leaders acknowledged his supremacy. Basu, who took over the state power in 1977 as the leader of the Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), was the longest-serving Chief Minister of West Bengal.