Articles for Jyoti Basu

From the India Today archives (2017) | When Pranab Mukherjee thought he could be PM
2 weeks, 1 day ago

From the India Today archives (2017) | When Pranab Mukherjee thought he could be PM

India Today  

Excerpts from Pranab Mukherjee’s autobiographical account of the coalition era, The Coalition Years: 1996-2012. KESRI’S ‘MERE PAAS WAQT NAHIN HAI’ Kesri’s tenure as treasurer was sixteen years long and he became a butt of a few jokes within the AICC, with one being about his accounting procedures: ‘Na khaata, na bahi, jo Kesriji kahen wahi sahi.’ As Congress president, Sitaram …

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: A Communist icon who dreamt of a resurgent West Bengal
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: A Communist icon who dreamt of a resurgent West Bengal

The Hindu  

Veteran Communist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was fond of quoting a phrase from Charles Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. In the tumultuous time of the seventh Left Front government when a ‘rainbow alliance’ of the Opposition led by Trinamool Congress would make governance difficult and ultra Left extremism raised its head in the State’s …

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Why Sandeshkhali is the New Marichjhapi
10 months ago

Why Sandeshkhali is the New Marichjhapi

News 18  

Sandeshkhali is to Mamata Banerjee what Marichjhapi was to Jyoti Basu. Reports of Marichjhapi indicate that “the men were first separated from women” and then “most of the young men were arrested and sent to jails and the police began to rape helpless young women at random.” Experts have averred that around 14,000 refugees were killed by Jyoti Basu’s government …

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Naveen Patnaik becomes second-longest-serving chief minister in India
1 year, 5 months ago

Naveen Patnaik becomes second-longest-serving chief minister in India

India TV News  

Odisha's Naveen Patnaik on Saturday achieved a remarkable milestone as he become the second longest-serving chief minister of a state in India with a tenure of 23 years and 139 days. Patnaik to become longest-serving CM of India Patnaik is also the third leader after Chamling and Basu to become the chief minister of a state for five consecutive times. …

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Naveen Patnaik: Carrying the legacy forward
2 years, 7 months ago

Naveen Patnaik: Carrying the legacy forward

The Hindu  

IN March 2023, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will equal the record of Jyoti Basu, who was Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years from 1977 to 2000. Naveen Patnaik will then be 77 years old, nine years younger than the age at which Jyoti Basu stepped down as Chief Minister. People who had been associated with both the senior …

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Mamata Will Break Jyoti Basu's Record as Bengal CM, Abhishek Will Take Over in 2036: TMC's Kunal Ghosh
2 years, 7 months ago

Mamata Will Break Jyoti Basu's Record as Bengal CM, Abhishek Will Take Over in 2036: TMC's Kunal Ghosh

News 18  

Mamata Banerjee will break the record of late Jyoti Basu who was West Bengal’s chief minister for 23 years and 137 days, Trinamool Congress spokesperson and party general secretary Kunal Ghosh said on Monday, adding that the TMC chairperson’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee will become CM in 2036. “Mamata Banerjee will be the chief minister till 2036, and then she will …

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Aijaz and the world
2 years, 9 months ago

Aijaz and the world

The Hindu  

When the Russian forces entered Ukraine in late February, I wanted to call Aijaz Ahmad to ask him what he thought about the conflict. Aijaz explained the nature of the 2014 coup d’etat in Kiev and the intensified ultranationalist government that was placed in power by the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies. Here is Aijaz’s assessment …

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s refusal to accept Padma award is symptomatic of a toxic West Bengal
2 years, 10 months ago

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s refusal to accept Padma award is symptomatic of a toxic West Bengal

Firstpost  

The communist leader’s rude refusal to accept the Padma Bhushan the nation bestowed on him is typical of the West Bengal political class Buddhadeb Bhattacharya’s arrogant and rude refusal to accept the Padma Bhushan the nation bestowed on him is typical of the West Bengal political class. Bhattacharya, 1944 born, Presidency College educated, ailing, side-lined, was squarely blamed for the …

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Padma Bhushan to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was Golden Chance for CPM to Showcase Its Agenda
2 years, 10 months ago

Padma Bhushan to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was Golden Chance for CPM to Showcase Its Agenda

News 18  

West Bengal produced many outstanding political brains. Now in very poor health, Bhattacharjee was offered Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award, by the Narendra Modi government in Delhi. In a written statement attributed to him, the former Chief Minister said: “I am not aware of the Padma Bhushan award being conferred on me. CPI referred to the same policy in …

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Yogendra Yadav on Bengal politics: Illogical and monumentally stupid
3 years, 9 months ago

Yogendra Yadav on Bengal politics: Illogical and monumentally stupid

Op India  

The West Bengal Assembly elections are only weeks away and with the admittedly meteoric rise of the Bhartiya Janta Party in the state, it is not difficult to imagine the absolute and thorough panic attacks that the entire ecosystem might be experiencing. Article by Yogendra Yadav in The Print In this unhinged ramblings of a presumably mad man, Yogendra Yadav, …

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50 years of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial – A Living Memorial
4 years, 3 months ago

50 years of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial – A Living Memorial

Op India  

One of the magnificent traditional architectural marvels of modern India is the Rock Memorial of Swami Vivekananda. The memorial has been constructed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Pracharak, Honourable Eknath Ranadeji, who brought the memorial to life by establishing the “Vivekananda Kendra” – a spiritually oriented Service Mission in 1972. The first donation of Rs 10,000 for the memorial was …

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Direct Action Day and the betrayal of Hindus by the Communists
4 years, 4 months ago

Direct Action Day and the betrayal of Hindus by the Communists

Op India  

The movement for India’s independence was a protracted struggle that encapsulated varying ideologies and walks working towards attaining total deliverance from British rule. In this article, we shall revisit the nefarious role played by the Communist Party in the Pakistan movement which culminated in the horrific Direct Action Day of 1946, also known as ‘The Bengali Hindu Holocaust’. Supporting Jinnah’s …

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Jyoti Basu: The mass murderer India forgot
4 years, 5 months ago

Jyoti Basu: The mass murderer India forgot

Op India  

In early 1979, around 40,000 hungry, starving and desperate Bengalis took shelter on the island of Marichjhapi in the Sunderbans of West Bengal. At the time he resigned as CM of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu had made history as India’s longest serving Chief Minister. In fact, in 1997, Bengal’s Home Minister admitted on the floor of the Assembly that 28,000 …

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