Bhattacharjee served as the chief minister for two consecutive terms from May 2001 before the debacle CPI(M)-led Left Front faced in the 2011 assembly polls
Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. (HT PHOTO)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away in Kolkata on Thursday. He was 80.
Bhattacharjee, who lived in a small two-room government apartment in south Kolkata’s Ballygunge area, suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had been largely confined to his home over the last few years. He had been in and out of hospital in south Kolkata, where he was rushed to last year in critical condition before his condition improved. Bhattacharjee was admitted to the same hospital in May 2021 with a Covid-19 infection. He was released after seven days.
Bhattacharjee served as the chief minister for two consecutive terms from May 2001 before the debacle CPI(M)-led Left Front faced in the 2011 assembly polls. He took over from Jyoti Basu who was at the helm in the state from 1977. CPI(M) ruled West Bengal uninterruptedly from 1977-2011.
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