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JYOTHI BASU

India’s longest serving Chief Minister and veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader, Jyoti Basu’s health condition is still critical. He was kept on almost 40 percent ventilation in the hospital. Basu was admitted to the AMRI private hospital near his salt lake residence following chest congestion and infection on 1st January and shifted to the intensive critical care unit on 2nd January. On 6th January, he was put on ventilator support due to acute respiratory problems. Basu is one of the founding fathers of the CPM.

BIOGRAPHY

India’s veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu was born on 8th July 1914 in Calcutta, Bengal as the son of a doctor Nishikanta Basu and Hemalata Basu. After gaining graduation with honours from the ‘Arts Faculty of the Presidency College’, he went to UK to study law. In England, he was inspired by noted Communist Philosopher and prolific writer Rajani Pam Dutt and understood the activities of politics through the ‘Communist Party of Great Britain’. He was also actively associated with the India League and the Federation of Indian Students in England. He returned to India as a barrister in 1940 and became a leader of the Eastern Bengal Railroad Workers’ Union. In 1946, Basu was elected as the member of Bengal Legislative Assembly and became the opposition leader in 1957. In 1977, he became the Chief Minister of West Bengal and remained the Chief Minister till 2000. Thus he holds the record for being the longest-serving Chief Minister in Indian political history. His government made tremendous achievements in West Bengal. Basu restored political stability in the state and he made land reforms which provided land to more than one million sharecroppers. That government also improved WestBengal’s agricultural and fishery production. In 2000, he resigned from the Chief Ministership of West Bengal due to the health reasons. In 1996 parilament election, he was considered as one of the possible candidates for the post of Prime Minister. However, the CPI(M) Politburo decided not to participate in the government and later Basu described this decision as a ‘historic blunder’. Overall, Basu is a great politician who win the hearts of the people through his politicial ideas. Basu is married twice. Earlier, he is married to Basanti ghosh who died on typhoid and then he married to Kamal Basu and they have a son Subhabrata Basu.

UPDATES

Veteran Communist leader and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu passed away on 17th January, 2010 after a 16-day battle in the AMRI Hospital, Kolkata. His body will not be cremated but his body will be handed over to a state-run hospital, because he had donated his body to the hospital. All people were mourned the death of one of the most accomplished leaders of India.

SHIBU SOREN

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren is trying his luck as the Chief minister of Jharkhand for the third time. He has sworn in as the seventh chief minister of Jharkhand on today morning. He is forming the government in Jharkhand with the support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and  All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). He was the chief minister of Jharkhand for nine days in 2005, and for around four months from August 2008 to January 2009.

BIOGRAPHY

Shibu Soren, popularly known as ‘Guruji’ was born on 11th January, 1944 in Nemra village of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. He did not gain more education. After the school education, he had to discontinue his education after his father was allegedly killed by rowdies employed by moneylenders. After that, he became the enemy of moneylenders who exploited members of his poor and largely needy tribal community. At the age of 18, he created the Santhal Navyuvak Sangh and in the late 1960s, he started an ashram at Tundi block in Dhanbad district. He became a terror to those who lent money to the needy at expensive rates of interest. He began his political career in the early 1970s and rose to become a tribal leader. He was also opposed the non-tribals. In an outbreak of violence against the non-tribals, the tribals killed 11 people in Chirudih village of Jamtara district. Soren was charged with murder case and this murder case forced him to go underground.Soren was charged with the murder case and this murder case forced him to go underground. After that incident, he became the god of the tribal society. In 1971, Soren became the general secretary of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM). He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. In 1986, he became the JMM president, and he represented the Dumka Lok Sabha constituency in 1989, 1991, 1996, 2004 and 2009. His popularity lost after he and three other Lok Sabha MPs were charged with taking bribes to vote in favor of the Congress government of P V Narasimha Rao in 1992. He was jailed in the bribery case. In 2004, he became coal minister in the Manmohan Singh government, and he resigned from this post following an arrest warrant in his name in the thirty-year old Chirudih case. He was again made a minister in the central government and resigned after becoming Jharkhand chief minister. However, he failed to prove his majority in the assembly and had to step down. He was again selected in the central cabinet in 2006 and quit from the cabinet after he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his personal secretary Shashinath Jha. He became chief minister Jharkhand for nine months, and he stepped down after the losing of Tamar assembly seat. Now, two murder cases are still pending against him. One is related to the murder of three people and other is the murder case of his personal secretary Shashinath Jha. Soren is married to Roopi Soren, and they have three sons and one daughter.