Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is an Indian politician. He served as a Member of the Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist) between 2002 to 2015. In 2000, he became the eighth Chief Minister of West Bengal till 2011. He served as an MLA of the Jadavpur constituency of West Bengal for twenty-four years. In the 2011 West Bengal elections, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was defeated with a margin of 16,684 votes by Manish Gupta who was the former Chief Secretary of his own government. During his tenure as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya attempted to industrialize West Bengal by setting up a deal with Tata Motors for producing the cheapest Nano car. However, the joint campaigns of the Trinamool Congress, Socialist Unity Centre of India, and Indian National Congress were faced by his ministry. Other events that took place during Buddhadeb Bhattacharyas government in West Bengal were the land acquisition dispute in Singur, the Nandigram incident, and the Netai incident.Sukanta Bhattacharya who was a revolutionary poet of India was the cousin of his father. Sukanta Bhattacharya was a student of Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya. In Bangladesh, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had an ancestral house. In 1966, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya entered into politics and joined CPIM. In 1968, he was an active supporter of Vietnams cause and also actively participated in food movements in West Bengal. This year, he was elected as the Secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of the Democratic Youth Federation.Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Cossipore (now Kashipur) constituency in north Kolkata in 1977. This year, under the leadership of Jyoti Basu, the CPIM party in West Bengal came into power. In 1982, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya lost the Legislative Assembly elections from the Cossipore constituency to the Indian National Congress leader Prafulla Kanti Ghosh. In the 1987 Legislative Assembly elections, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya won from the Jadavpur constituency of West Bengal on the ticket of CPIM. He was appointed as the minister of information and culture and served till 1996. During this period, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya made a huge contribution to Bengali theatre, movies, and music.In the assembly elections of 1991, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya criticised various aspects and policies of his own party when Jyoti Basu was the chief minister of West Bengal. Consequently, he resigned from the ministry, and there were official reasons stated by the CPIM party in the media. The rumours in the media stated that Jyoti Basu had made personal remarks on Bhattacharya and his working in the ministry that led Bhattacharya to quit. However, within six months, Buddhadeb was back in the cabinet and the dispute was resolved. [5]Rediff.From 1996 to 1999, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya served as the minister of home affairs. He became the eighth Chief Minister of West Bengal on 6 November 2000 after replacing 23 year rule of Jyoti Basu. He also served as the 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2001. From 2000 to 2011, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya served as the Minister of Land and Land Revenue in the government of West Bengal.Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was a member secretariat in 1982. In 1982, he visited as a companion of Promode Dasgupta. In 1984, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was a Permanent Invitee to Central Committee.During his tenure as a Chief Minister of West Bengal, the state saw several developments in industries and IT services. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is known for his slogan do it now in West Bengal. In 2003, the IT Policy of West Bengal was formulated that resulted in 70 per cent growth from 2001 to 2005 in West Bengals IT field. In a press meet, in 2006, he talked about the ideologies of Marxism and stated that his party was following the policies of capitalism and not socialism. He said, According to classical Marxism, there is a fundamental feud between capital and labour. But here we are practising policies of capitalism, not socialism. We do not want to raise slogans like ladai ladai ladai chai (we will have to fight) and close down factories..Once, the Chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji, called Buddhadeb Bhattacharya the Best Chief Minister in the country, and the then Finance Director of Infosys, T.V. Mohandas Pai, praised his diligence for the state. [6]The Print Pai said, Indias renaissance in the 21st century will come from Calcutta like it did in the 19th century..In one of his interviews, in 1997, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya stated that he was a communist and an atheist. He talked about his religious views. [7]India Today He said, I am a Communist and an atheist. But if I am to visit a temple, I would take off my shoes in deference to others sentiments..In 2006, in a conversation with a media house, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya stated that UPA was not a successful government as it failed to implement land reform in the country. [8]India Today He said, No. They are a failure in agricultural sector. They could not implement land reform policy. That is very crucial. He further added in the same interview that he never followed Gandhian ideologies and was always a Marxist. He stated, I was never a Gandhian. I am still a Marxist. I believe capitalism cannot be the last chapter of human history..